As your child enters adulthood, keep AFTRA H&R informed. The age of your child and your child's employment status may affect your dependent child’s Health Plan coverage.  

Children of AFTRA Health Plan participants may be covered as dependents under the participant’s Health Plan enrollment until the end of the calendar quarter in which they reach age 26. This provision applies to all biological children, adopted children, children placed for adoption, stepchildren and foster children of participants, regardless of the child’s marital status, place of residence, student status or financial dependency status. However, adult children under age 26 who are eligible to enroll in an employer-sponsored health plan (other than a group health plan of a parent) do not qualify for coverage as a dependent under the AFTRA Health Plan. For additional information, refer to the 2011 Health Plan SPD and relevant Benefits Updates. 

If your adult child no longer qualifies for coverage under the Health Plan due to age, this loss of coverage is a qualifying event that allows him or her to continue coverage under terms of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). 

Entering the workforce 

If a dependent child enters the workforce and becomes eligible for an employer sponsored health plan, you must notify AFTRA H&R in writing within 30 days to cancel his or her dependent coverage under the Health Plan.

For these or any life events that could affect your coverage, you must notify AFTRA H&R in writing. Please send this notification, along with supporting documentation, to the address below: 

AFTRA Health & Retirement Funds
Attention: Eligibility Department
261 Madison Avenue, 7th floor
New York, NY 10016 

For definitions of some of the terms listed on this page, visit the online health and retirement glossaries.

Questions? Call Participant Services at (800) 562-4690.

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