Mid-Year Election Change - Change in Status

[DTH]

An employee is married and elected single medical coverage. If the employee is transferred from one company of a controlled group to another company can the employee change his medical election from single to family coverage?

Thanks.

[papogi]

A change to the election can only happen if there is a change with regards to eligibility. Is this a geographic move? This might allow the spouse to drop current coverage, thereby possibly able to come on your employee’s coverage. This move by itself is not enough to allow the change in election. There will have to be some other concurrent event addressed under Section 125 to allow the change to the election.