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ObamaCare changed the future landscape of healthcare, but one change that is currently in effect is that a group health plan or health insurance issuer that offers group health insurance coverage must make dependent coverage of children available until a child’s attainment of 26 years of age. Specifically, for plan years beginning on and after January 1, 2011, a group health plan must provide health coverage for employees’ children until the child turns 26.

In 2010, the IRS issued Temporary Regulations regarding the coverage requirement. Travis Software usually does not make changes based upon temporary regulations, however, we received customer suggestions to incorporate this new change and felt it appropriate considering all of the attention ObamaCare is getting.

Last month, Travis announced the “Tuesday Tips” blog series that has helpful suggestions and instructions for various functions in either our desktop or web-based systems. A new “Tuesday Tips” blog will be posted the first Tuesday of each month and will discuss and demonstrate a common feature or a recently introduced functionality of the system.

In this second edition of “Tuesday Tips,” we focus on handling secondary qualifying events in WebCOBRA, our web-based system. When the Dependent of a Qualified Beneficiary (QB) experiences a qualifying event of their own (called a “secondary event”) and that person has an existing record in the system, their information can be updated in WebCOBRA to reflect that secondary event, and any applicable correspondence will be generated at that time.

Working day in and day out, Travis Support has identified some common questions heard on a regular basis that usually have simple answers. One such question is how to add dependents to an existing QB.