Life Event
You’ll have to act relatively quickly from the date of your “Life Event”. You’ll only have 60 days from the time of your Life Event to enroll into a health insurance plan. This 60 days is your “Special Enrollment Period”.
Some examples of a Life Event are:
- Losing your existing health insurance coverage
- Cobra expiring
- Turning 26 and losing coverage through a parent’s plan or moving away or to college
- Changes in marriage, birth or adoption of children, death
- Gaining or losing a dependent
- No longer eligible for Medicaid
- Moving to a different zip code or county
- Working seasonally and losing coverage, moving to or from a shelter
- Changes in your income that affect the coverage you would qualify for
- Becoming a US Citizen
- Leaving incarceration
- Membership into a federally recognized tribe or status change as an Alaska Native
- AmeriCorps members change in service
- Terminating (cancelling) your own insurance is not a life event.
