Dependent Eligibility

If you, the member, are eligible for Dental and Vision benefits, you may cover your current legal spouse and your unmarried dependent children, including:

• biological children
• residential stepchildren
• foster children
• legally adopted children
• children for who you have legal custody
• QMSCO (Qualified Medical Child Support Order)
• Unmarried children who are incapable of self-support due to mental retardation, severe mental illness, or physical handicap, whose disability began before coverage terminated and who are primarily dependent upon you.
• An Ohio resident or a full-time, out-of-state student.
• NOT employed by an employer that offers coverage where the child is eligible.
• NOT eligible for Medicaid/ Medicare.

For more information on dependent eligibility, please click here.