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Things to keep in mind / information: COBRA and Spouse

Here are some COBRA thoughts:

COBRA ends at age 65 even if you have 10 month left on COBRA. Honeywell won't warn you until it's almost too late so be sure you are signed up for medicare but then ALSO line up your vision and dental. You will lose that too! You may think that it's only medical but I lost vision and dental as well when I turned 65 and had to scramble to make sure I didn't have a one month lapse in coverage for it. Some Dental/Vision people also have a 45 day waiting list so check them out a couple of months before your 18 months run out.

COBRA will continue for you spouse's coverage for an additional 18 months (36 Total). I still don't know why but it does. Honeywell won't tell you that so you have to dig for it on the phone but better yet use the email so you can specifically ask about getting extended COBRA coverage for your spouse. Make you copy of the emails that is on the web site.

SPOUSE will need to sign up individually so you will have a new ID and Password for the site.

CHECK/CHECK/AND RECHECK the site a couple of times a month to make sure everything is paid and the amounts are correct. Seems that more than a few times they "forget" to have the dental/vision payments in the required payment box to pay. You can't add anything so your only recourse is to use the email to document that they didn't put it on and you want to pay it. Normally they add it to the next months payment but sometimes they just sneak in another payment due on the web site. So CHECK/CHECK/AND RECHECK the Honeywell COBRA web site.

I don't know for sure if the spousal 36 month rule is for all Honeywell sites or not but you still should push on the phone but especially on email so you have proof of what they say and asking 2-4 times is sometimes necessary with them.

Good luck to anyone who might need to know this.

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  • dopk

Attorney said to not sign? Must be some kind of very special termination to pass on the severance. What was so grievous about it? Perhaps you were the one person they couldn't do without and there was a mistake in HR at the last minute?

You got very bad advice.

I'd send the insurance bill to the attorney.

In any event, your RIF was a blessing...trust me as one who engineered their own.

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Post ID: @excy+12slF6FO

From Glendale guy who was terminated: Company never contacted me about how to start my COBRA coverage .
According to exhibit A of the Severance Package page 10 which I did not sign (on advise of my attorney) : "Honeywell's COBRA administrator will be contacting you at the end of your Salary Continuation Period to provide you with further details and election forms."

I found out today when I went to CVS for my heart meds that my Expresscripts pr-scrip-ion coverage ended on Nov 30. Then I called the Honeywell benefits center today and the guy talked me through getting on-line, register, and make my insurance elections. I still have to wait 24 -48 hrs for them to set my billing /payment up so I can make my first payment. After which the insurance providers be notified by them in a week to retroactively start my coverage Nov 30. In the meantime I have to save my bills to get reimbursed eventually.

So, I will be paying $1239 per month.
At the moment without severance I have to make due with my reserves in making payments.

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Post ID: @dopk+12slF6FO

Response to Post ID: @12slF6FO-1ccp - Most likely a Human Resource / Management troll - your company is a total disgrace. At some point when it's your turn to be RIF'd - you'll get it - Until then enjoy all the future shaping B.S.

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Post ID: @4wpx+12slF6FO

Agree with 1ccp as we own this not HW. However, thank you for taking the time to share your experience. Hopefully it will help someone under similar circumstances.

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Post ID: @1anx+12slF6FO

Why should Honeywell warn anybody about this stuff? It's up to an individual to determine their benefits, whether the benefits are provided by the employer or by the government.

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