{"id":275,"date":"2014-07-15T00:21:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/?page_id=275"},"modified":"2014-07-15T00:21:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:21:53","slug":"3-1-9open-enrollment-for-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/3-1-9open-enrollment-for-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"3.1.9\tOpen Enrollment for Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\tThe State Comprehensive Group Health Plan allows an open enrollment to occur one time during the calendar year.&nbsp; An open enrollment period is announced each year prior to the plan anniversary date (January 1).\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\tElections become effective January 1 of each year.&nbsp; Cancellation of participation may be done during the open enrollment period only. &nbsp;Generally, October is designated as the time in which changes can be made to health plans.&nbsp; Employees are cautioned that &quot;open enrollment&quot; occurs once a year and this is the only time that changes can be made to insurance programs, unless a Qualifying Event occurs.&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\tA Qualifying Event is defined as marriage, divorce, death of a spouse or dependent child, birth or adoption of a child, and termination of employment of spouse.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Comprehensive Group Health Plan allows an open enrollment to occur one time during the calendar year.&nbsp; An open enrollment period is announced each year prior to the plan anniversary date (January 1). &nbsp; Elections become effective January 1 of each year.&nbsp; Cancellation of participation may be done during the open enrollment period only. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/staffhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}