Employees must complete an enrollment form to enroll in coverage. To be eligible for health insurance, employees must be regularly scheduled to work at least thirty hours per week in a non-seasonal, non-temporary position.

• Spouse (legally married)

• A child under the age of 26 who meets at least one of the following criteria:

  • Employee's natural (biological) child

  • Employee's adopted child (including a child placed for adoption in anticipation of adoption)

  • A child for whom the employee is the legal guardian

  • Employee's child for whom the plan has received a qualified medical child support order requiring the child to be enrolled in health insurance

• An employee or spouse's stepchild under the age of 26 for whom the employee or spouse is providing care

• Dependents over the age of 26 who are incapacitated (mentally or physically incapable of earning a living regardless of age). This provision applies only when the incapacity existed before the dependent's 26th birthday and they were already insured by a state-sponsored plan.

Dependents who are NOT eligible for coverage include:

1. Foster children

2. Dependents not listed in the above definitions

3. Parents of the employee or spouse

4. Ex-spouse

5. Live-in companions who are not legally married to the employee