When I'm negotiating severance packages for employees, many times employers will offer to pay a month or more of COBRA payments. COBRA is the law that says employers have to let employees who lose their jobs stay on the company's insurance for up to 18 months as long as the employee pays 100% of the premium. Those premiums can be huge: $1,000 or more sometimes. Getting the employer to pick up some of the premiums can be a huge benefit.
Until now, that is.
Find out about the problem I found that occurs if you lose your job after open enrollment by reading my article at AOL Jobs.You have an important choice to make on health insurance. Find out before you enroll in COBRA and before you sign any severance agreement. You're stuck with the choice you make until the next open enrollment in November.
Then, if you think this is a serious problem, tell President Obama by signing the petition I created, which only needs 24 more signatures to go up on the public website (where it will have to gather 100,000 signatures by May 4, so time's a-wasting). Do it today.
Until now, that is.
Find out about the problem I found that occurs if you lose your job after open enrollment by reading my article at AOL Jobs.You have an important choice to make on health insurance. Find out before you enroll in COBRA and before you sign any severance agreement. You're stuck with the choice you make until the next open enrollment in November.
Then, if you think this is a serious problem, tell President Obama by signing the petition I created, which only needs 24 more signatures to go up on the public website (where it will have to gather 100,000 signatures by May 4, so time's a-wasting). Do it today.
Advertisement
EmoticonEmoticon