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.

For more information on dependent eligibility and student coverage for dependents ages 19-23, please click here