How to obtain TCC for former spouses
If your former spouse doesn't meet all the
requirements for enrollment under the spouse
equity provisions of law, he or she
may be eligible for TCC. To be eligible for TCC,
your former spouse must have been covered
under your FEHB family enrollment at some
time during the 18 months before your marriage
ended. (The term "former spouse" does not
include widows or widowers.)
If your former spouse wants TCC, you and
your former spouse share the responsibility
for notifying your employing office within 60
days after the qualifying event (divorce or
annulment) and supplying the former spouse's
mailing address. Within 14 days after your
employing office receives the notice from you or
your former spouse, it must notify your former
spouse of his or her TCC rights. Your former
spouse must elect TCC within 60 days after the
later of:
- the date of the divorce or annulment; or
- the date he or she receives the notice of TCC
(temporary continuation of coverage) rights
from your employing office, if you or the former
spouse notified the agency within the
60-day time limit given above.
If you or your former spouse do not notify your
employing office within the 60-day time limit,
the opportunity to elect TCC ends 60 days after
the divorce or annulment.
If someone other than you or your former
spouse notifies your employing office about
your former spouse's eligibility, the employing
office will notify your former spouse of his or
her TCC rights, but your former spouse must
elect TCC within 60 days after the divorce or
annulment, not 60 days after the employing
office's notice.