{"id":1382,"date":"2021-05-19T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=1382"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:02:16","slug":"cobra-federal-law-overview","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/knowledge-base\/cobra-federal-law-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"COBRA federal law overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances, such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, divorce, and other life events. To learn more about COBRA, you can access the COBRA Continuation Toolkit from the HR Resource Center.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.trustmineral.com\/templates\/toolkits\/6ucI5rKS4vNvUv1ejtGoyQ\/details\" style=\"background-color:#d54400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COBRA Federal Law Overview<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You will be asked to provide your HR Resource Center login user name and password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(updated 10\/17\/2025)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances, such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[64],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1382","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-cobra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9464,"href":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1382\/revisions\/9464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.insperity.com\/hcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}