Consumer Guide to Health Care
If You Are Unemployed or Have Lost Your Group Health Insurance
Disclaimer: All external hyperlinks are provided for
your information and for the benefit of the general public. The
Department of Health Services does not testify to, sponsor,
or endorse the accuracy of the information provided on externally linked
pages.
What Is COBRA?, from the American Cancer Society, provides information about this federal law that
gives you the right to choose to keep the group health insurance benefits you would otherwise lose after you
reduce your work hours, quit your job, or lose your job.
Fact
Sheet on Continuation and Conversion Rights in Health Insurance Policies,
from Wisconsin's Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, includes
information about COBRA especially for Wisconsin residents.
Your
Employer’s Bankruptcy: How Will It Affect Your Employee
Benefits?: A fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Health
Coverage Tax Credit: Information from the U.S. Department of Revenue on a tax
credit available to a limited number of individuals who have lost their jobs or whose
hours of work and wages have been reduced as a result of increased imports.
Note: On October 21, 2011, the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 was signed
into law, increasing the amount of the Health Care Coverage Tax Credit and expanding the
population eligible to receive it.
Read
about its provisions, which are effective until January 1, 2014.
If you've been turned down for health insurance coverage,
you may be eligible for HIRSP, the
Wisconsin Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan.
If you are facing long-term unemployment, you may be
eligible for a government
insurance program.
Last Revised:
August 23, 2012
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