Benefits: Insurance: Eligibility
Employees
Employees are eligible for benefits if they are working 20 hours or more per week, and are expected to work at least five months during any consecutive 12-month period.
Dependents
The following individuals qualify as dependents as defined in the State's Group Insurance Contracts and may be covered under group insurance benefits:
- Your legal spouse
- Your unmarried children up to their 19th birthday. The term "children" includes natural children, stepchildren, adopted children, or children in the process of adoption from the time placed with you. The term "children" also includes children legally dependent upon you or your spouse where a normal parent-child relationship exists with the expectation that you will continue to rear that child to adulthood. However, if one or both of that child's natural parents live in the same household with you, a parent-child relationship shall not be deemed to exist, even though you or your spouse provides support.
- Children may be covered beyond their 19th birthday, but not beyond the end of the calendar month in which they attain the age of 23, so long as they remain unmarried and are eligible to be claimed as dependents on your most recent U.S. Individual Income Tax Return.