Changing COBRA participant benefits

If a COBRA participant's coverage or contributions change, do not change the COBRA participant's benefit. You should stop the current benefit and re-add the COBRA participant in the same plan with the new coverage or contributions. Re-adding the benefit provides an online audit trail of changes.

The COBRA participant's benefit and invoicing will stop on the stop date entered. If you are entering a past date and invoices have already been created, enter any needed adjustments on Cash Entry (BN81.1). See Entering and manually applying payments.

You can automatically update COBRA participant benefits when a plan changes. See Plan maintenance: benefit plans. You automatically update COBRA participant benefits for benefits based on age. See BN enrollment: maintain employee enrollments.

Access COBRA Benefit Entry (BN71.1).
After selecting the Company, Participant, and specifying the As of Date, select the Inquire form function. Plans in which the COBRA participant is enrolled will display on two separate lines. One is denoted with an asterisk (*) to indicate enrollment. The other line is there to enter changes.

Note: Stop dates are automatically calculated for participants based on Occurrence Type and Occurrence Date on COBRA Participant (BN70.1). You cannot specify a stop date later than the system- calculated date.
In the Stop field, change the date to stop the COBRA participant's coverage.

Note: The COBRA participant's benefit and invoicing will stop on that date. If the participant has dependents covered under the benefit, then the Benefits Administration application stops the dependent benefits.
Select the Change form function.
Add the benefit with new coverage and contribution for the COBRA participant and the COBRA participant's dependents.
Select the Change form function.

Related reports and inquiries


To	Use
Display COBRA participant benefits	COBRA and Retiree Benefit Inquiry (BN77.1)
List COBRA participant benefits	COBRA and Retiree Benefit Report (BN233)