{"id":16470,"date":"2020-07-20T07:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16470"},"modified":"2020-07-20T07:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:36:40","slug":"administration-eases-rules-to-give-laid-off-workers-more-time-to-sign-up-for-cobra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16470","title":{"rendered":"Administration Eases Rules to Give Laid-Off Workers More Time to Sign Up for COBRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>People who\u2019ve been laid off or furloughed from their jobs now have significantly more time to decide whether to hang on to their employer-sponsored health insurance, according to a recent federal rule.<\/p>\n<p>Under the federal\u00a0law known as COBRA, people who lose their job-based coverage because of a layoff or a reduction in their hours generally have 60 days to decide whether to continue their health insurance. But under\u00a0the new rule, that clock doesn\u2019t start ticking until the end of the COVID-19 \u201coutbreak period,\u201d which started March 1 and continues for 60 days after the COVID-19 national emergency ends. That end date hasn\u2019t been determined yet.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/administration-eases-rules-to-give-laid-off-workers-more-time-to-sign-up-for-cobra\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) People who\u2019ve been laid off or furloughed from their jobs now have significantly more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-employer-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16471,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16470\/revisions\/16471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}