Section 24-4.11 - Cancellation of Enrollment; Effective Dates of Cancellation(a)Cancellation Due to Ineligibility. The enrollment of any ineligible person who was enrolled in error or is ineligible to enroll in or be covered in a benefit plan offered or sponsored by the Fund shall be canceled: (1) When the person is notified of the error or ineligibility prior to the effective date of the enrollment, the person shall be treated as if the enrollment application was not submitted.(2) When the person is notified after the effective date of the enrollment, the enrollment may be canceled retroactively to the effective date.(b)Cancellation Due to Failure to Pay Contribution Shortage. If any portion of an employee-beneficiary's required semi-monthly or monthly contributions is not paid or is not withheld from the employee-beneficiary's earnings and transmitted to the Fund within thirty (30) days of the date of the notice of contribution shortage in Rule 4.10, the employee-beneficiary's enrollment in all health benefit plans, and all dependent-beneficiaries' health benefit plans under that enrollment shall be cancelled as of the first day following the last period for which full payment of the employee-beneficiary's required semi-monthly or monthly contributions were paid and transmitted to the Fund and the employee-beneficiary will be ineligible for fund health benefits. The employee-beneficiary may only apply for a new enrollment as per Rule 4.13(a). However, the enrollment and eligibility for benefits of the employee-beneficiary and his or her dependent-beneficiaries may be reinstated as provided in Rule 4.13(b). Cancellation of an employee-beneficiary's enrollment pursuant to this rule shall not affect the Fund's right to collect any and all contribution shortages from the employee-beneficiary.
(c)Cancellation Due to Failure to Comply with Rules. If an employee-beneficiary materially fails to comply with any of the Fund's rules, the employee-beneficiary's enrollment in all of the benefit plans offered or sponsored by the Fund and all coverages for dependent-beneficiaries under that enrollment may be canceled after notice of such has been provided to the employee-beneficiary. The board may set standards and procedures for providing notice to employee-beneficiaries under this rule. The notice shall at a minimum specify how the employee-beneficiary has failed to comply with the Fund's rules, and a date by which the employee-beneficiary must comply with the Fund's rules in order to avoid cancellation. The effective date of the cancellation shall be the date set forth in the notice as to when the employee-beneficiary must comply with the Fund's rules in order to avoid cancellation.(d)Cancellation Due to Acquiring Coverage From a Non-Fund Plan. An employee-beneficiary or dependent-beneficiary may cancel enrollment in a Fund benefit plan upon acquiring coverage from a non-Fund plan or when moving to a country in which they are eligible for publicly provided healthcare or similar, by filing an enrollment application to the employee-beneficiary's employer or, if none, directly with the Fund requesting cancellation. The enrollment application must be filed with the employee-beneficiary's employer, or, if none, directly to the Fund within thirty (30) days of acquiring coverage from the non-Fund plan or moving to another country as noted above. The effective date of cancellation shall be the end of the pay period in which the employee-beneficiary or dependent-beneficiary moves to another country as noted above or acquires coverage from the non-Fund plan, except when the employee-beneficiary or dependent-beneficiary acquires coverage from the non-Fund plan on the first or the sixteenth of the month, in which case coverage ends at the end of the prior pay period. Proof documents may be required.
(e)Cancellation When Beginning a Leave of Absence Without Pay. An employee-beneficiary may voluntarily cancel enrollment in all Fund benefit plans when beginning a leave of absence without pay that is expected to last more than one month. An enrollment application must be filed with the employee-beneficiary's employer requesting cancellation of all plans within thirty (30) days of the beginning of the leave of absence without pay. The effective date of the cancellation shall be the end of the pay period during which the leave of absence without pay begins. Employee-beneficiaries who cancel coverage in accordance with this section may re-enroll in the same benefit plans upon return from the leave of absence without pay by completing an enrollment application and submitting it to the employee-beneficiary's employer within thirty (30) days of returning from the leave of absence.