Opportunities to change enrollment
After the initial enrollment, a TCC enrollee may
change enrollment during the annual FEHB
Open Season or, generally, when an event occurs
that would allow an employee to change enrollment.
A TCC (temporary continuation of coverage)
enrollee may change enrollment from self and
family to Self Only at any time. Family members
who lose coverage because an enrollee changes
enrollment from Self and Family to Self Only are
entitled to the 31-day temporary extension of
coverage for conversion to an individual contract,
but are not eligible to enroll under TCC in
their own right.
A TCC enrollee may change coverage during the
annual Federal Employees Health Benefits
(FEHB) Open Season or when one of the following
events occur:
- Change in family status
- Move from an HMO's (Health Maintenance
Organization) service area
- Termination of membership in an employee
organization plan
- Termination of the plan in which enrolled
- Become eligible for Medicare coverage
- Loss of coverage under another FEHB enrollment
because the covering enrollment was
terminated, cancelled, or changed to Self Only
- Loss of coverage under another federally sponsored
health benefits program
- Loss of coverage under the Medicaid program
or similar State-sponsored program of medical
assistance for the needy
- Loss of coverage under a non-Federal health
plan