The following dependents are eligible for coverage on your benefit plans. When you request to enroll a new dependent on your plan(s) you will be required to provide a dependent eligibility form and supporting documentation. Please review the Dependent Verification Form to identify required documentation and timelines for submitting the documentation.
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Your legal spouse
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Your domestic partner (same sex or opposite sex) as defined in RCW 26.60
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Your, your spouse's, or domestic partner's natural child, adopted child, step child, or child legally placed with you or your spouse or domestic partner for adoption under the age of 26
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A child for whom you or your spouse or domestic partner have court‑appointed legal guardianship
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Your, your spouse's, or domestic partner's otherwise eligible child who is over the age of 26 and the affidavit of dependent eligibility form to your Plan Administrator and it has been approved by the Plan Administrator has been submitted and approved.
Your, your spouse's or your domestic partner's otherwise eligible child who is age 26 or over and incapable of self-support because of physical, mental or developmental disability that prevents the child from establishing or maintaining consistent employment or independence that began before their 26th birthday, if you complete and submit the affidavit of dependent eligibility form, with written evidence of the child's incapacity, within 31 days of the later of the child's 26th birthday or your effective date and either:
- They are a dependent immediately before their 26th birthday; or
- Their 26th birthday preceded your effective date and he or she has been continuously covered as your dependent on group, individual, or other insurance plan (including public programs) coverage since that birthday.
- Newly hired employees wishing to enroll an eligible dependent must also be able to demonstrate that the dependent child has been covered on a group, individual, or other insurance plan (including public programs) immediately prior to enrollment on this plan.