Important Notice: If you choose to make a change to your enrollment, you must make the change within 60 days of the event
A change in family status:
- marriage
- birth or adoption of a child
- acquisition of a foster child
- legal separation
- divorce
- Death of a spouse or a dependent
A change in employment status:
- you are reemployed after a break in service of more than 3 days
- you return to pay status after your coverage terminated during leave without pay status or because you were in leave without pay status for more than 365 days
- your pay increases enough for premiums to be withheld
- you are restored to a civilian position after serving in the uniformed services
- you change from a temporary appointment to an appointment that entitles you to a Government contribution
- you change to or from part-time career employment.
You or family members lose FEHB or other coverage:
- under another FEHB enrollment because the covering enrollment was terminated, canceled, or changed to self only;
- under another federally-sponsored health benefits program;
- under Medicaid or similar State-sponsored program for the needy;
- you loose coverage under CHAMPVA, TRICARE, or TRICARE-for-Life when you had previously suspended your FEHB coverage to particpate in one fo these programs;
- because your membership terminates in the employee organization sponsoring the FEHB plan; or
- under a non-Federal health plan.
When one of these events occur, you may:
- enroll;
- change your enrollment from self only to self and family; or
- change your enrollment to another FEHB plan or option.
- change your enrollment from self and family to self only*; or cancel your enrollment
*A change to self only may be made only if the QLE causes the enrollee to be the last eligible family member under the FEHB enrollment. A cancellation may be made only if the enrollee can show that as a result of the QLE, he or she and all eligible family members now have other health insurance coverage