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CHCBP Plan Summary
Image of honor guard Implementation of CHCBP was directed by Congress in order to provide a program of temporary continued health care benefits comparable to the continued health care benefits provided for former civilian employees of the Federal government. Medical benefits under CHCBP are similar to the benefits under TRICARE Standard. CHCBP functions under most of the rules and regulations governing TRICARE.
CHCBP acts as a “bridge” between your military health benefits and your new job’s medical benefits, so you and your family will receive continuous medical coverage. It is a health care program intended to provide you with continuous health care coverage on a temporary basis following your loss of military benefits.
Once again, you are not required to purchase this health care coverage. Participation in the CHCBP program is completely optional. However, enrollment in CHCBP may be your best option for temporary health care coverage.
Who Is Eligible? For How Long?
There are four classifications of persons eligible to enroll in CHCBP:

1.  Former active duty service members and their eligible family members.

  • Who are released or discharged from active duty under other than adverse conditions
  • Who were entitled to medical care under a military health plan
  • Who are not eligible for any benefits under TRICARE or Transitional Assistance Management Program (TAMP)
    Note: Eligibility in CHCBP begins after TAMP expires.

Coverage for former active duty service members and their eligible family members under CHCBP is limited to 18 months.

2.  Unremarried former spouses

  • Who, on the day before the date of the final decree of divorce, dissolution, or annulment, were covered under TRICARE or TAMP as dependents of a member or former member
  • Who are not eligible for TRICARE as a former spouse of a member or former member of the uniformed services

Coverage for unremarried former spouses under CHCBP is limited to 36 months.

3.  Emancipated children

  • Who cease to meet requirements for being considered an unmarried dependent child of a member or former member of the uniformed services
  • Who, on the day before ceasing to meet those requirements, were covered under TRICARE or TAMP as dependents of a member or former member of the uniformed services
  • Who would not otherwise be eligible for any benefits under TRICARE

Coverage for emancipated children under CHCBP is limited to 36 months.

4.  Unmarried children by adoption or legal custody

  • Who meet the requirements set forth in CHCBP Policy, Section A.4 

Coverage for unmarried children by adoption or legal custody under CHCBP is limited to 36 months.

Last Reviewed:  May 14, 2007