VA Medical Care used as Qualifying Event to drop coverage.

[Guest Benefit Management Services]

An employee has medical coverage on herself and her husband.

The husband has just been approved for VA medical care. Would this be considered a qualifying event under Section 125 to allow the employee to drop her husband from current coverage, or must she wait until Open Enrollment (01/01/03)?

[papogi]

No. A loss of such coverage could allow someone onto the plan, but a gaining of such coverage does not allow you to drop the current coverage.