Contact the SCU Benefits Office within 31 days after the child reaches age 19 for details about continuing insurance. Medical and dental coverage for your dependents becomes effective when your coverage does if they are enrolled during your initial enrollment period. All dependents must be enrolled within 31 days of when they become eligible. Coverage becomes effective on the date you sign the enrollment form. You must enroll a newborn child within 31 days after the date of birth and agree to make any required contributions.
Coverage becomes effective at birth.
If a dependent is confined in a hospital on the date coverage would be effective, coverage for that dependent will not be effective until the day following the dependent's final discharge from the hospital. This does not apply to a newborn baby. If you do not enroll your dependents within 31 days of their becoming eligible, they may be subject to a medical evidence of insurability requirement, or may be required to wait until open enrollment. Dental benefits will be restricted to diagnostic and preventive services during the first 12 months following late enrollment. Should your dependents involuntarily lose coverage under another employer's group plan, they may enroll in an SCU plan within one month after that coverage terminates.