insurance coverage for dependents up to age 26
Summary The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires benefit plans that provide coverage for dependents to cover adult children to age 26, effective for plan renewals beginning on or after September 23, 2010.randfathered plans may voluntarily offer to cover dependents to 26 without jeopardizing their grandfather status. In contrast, non-grandfathered plans are required to extend the coverage as of plan renewal on or after September 23, 2010, regardless of eligibility for other employer coverage.