Retirement and Health Care Coverage: Questions and Answers for Dislocated Workers
This article provides information on protecting health and retirement benefits. It is excerpted from Retirement and Health Care Coverage: Questions and Answers for Dislocated Workers, a publication of the U.S Department of Labor.
Plant and business closings, downsizings, and reductions in hours affect employees in numerous adverse ways. Workers lose income, the security of a steady job and, often, the health and retirement benefits that go along with working full time.
As a dislocated worker, you may have many questions, some of them concerning your health and retirement benefits. For instance:
- What happens to my health benefits?
- Can I continue health coverage until I get another job?
- Do I have access to my retirement funds?
- I’ve lost my job. Is there any way I can get health coverage for me and my family?
Retirement and Health Care Coverage: Questions and Answers for Dislocated Workers, a publication of the U.S Department of Labor, answers some of those questions.
Retirement and Health Care Coverage: Questions and Answers for Dislocated Workers, a publication of the U.S Department of Labor, addresses these topics.
- Protecting Your Health and Retirement Benefits
- Maintaining Your Health Coverage
- Enrolling in Another Plan
- Special Enrollment in a Spouse’s Plan
- Continuing in Your Old Plan
- Who Offers COBRA coverage
- Electing and Paying for Coverage
- How Long COBRA Coverage Lasts
- Possible Benefits for Trade Affected Workers
- Finding Individual Health Coverage
- Health Insurance Marketplace
- Medicaid and CHIP
- Protecting Your Retirement Assets
- Access to Retirement Funds
- Consequences of Early Withdrawal
- Safety of Retirement Assets
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