Cobra Subsidy Extension 2025

Cobra Subsidy Extension 2025. Under the consolidated omnibus budget reconciliation act (cobra), many employees and their families who would lose their health insurance or other group health plan coverage because of a serious life event can keep it for a limited time, usually at their own expense. (1) the extension of deadlines for cobra elections and premium payments, and (2) the interaction of the extended deadlines with the cobra subsidy.

Cobra generally requires that group health plans sponsored by employers with 20 or more employees in the prior year offer employees and their families the opportunity for a temporary extension of health coverage (called continuation. Eligibility for subsidy during extended coverage periods;