COBRA/Retiree Medical Benefits
If you have county health coverage on the last day of your employment, it continues through the last day of the month you leave. When county-paid coverage ends, you and your covered dependents may pay to continue coverage under COBRA or retiree medical benefits. For more information about COBRA, retiree medical and the other things you need to know and do when you leave county employment:
- Refer to the Employee Exit Guide.
- Attend an Exit Class, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. the last Tuesday of every month in Conference Room 121 on the first floor of the New County Office Building, 401 Fifth Ave. (Fifth Avenue and Jefferson Street), Seattle. To enroll, e-mail kc.orientations@kingcounty.gov.
The cost for COBRA and retiree medical coverage is based on what King County pays to provide the same coverage to active employees and is subject to periodic adjustment. The cost to cover a dependent child applies whether you cover one child or several as long as you or your spouse/domestic partner also elects coverage. If you or your spouse/domestic partner don't elect coverage, the first child pays the same rate as you and the dependent child rate applies to all additional dependent children. A child who no longer qualifies as your dependent and elects COBRA coverage pays the same rate as you.
COBRA rates
Retiree medical rates
Current for 2008.
