Special Enrollment Period: Texas - Emergency Declaration - Drought - Renewal
Please be advised that a state of emergency was declared, impacting the individuals in select Texas counties. This declaration allows for a one-time Special Enrollment Period (SEP), in the event beneficiaries were unable to make an election during another qualifying election period. Please reference the following guidelines for the incident period. This SEP applies to all the impacted counties in Texas listed below.
Important Compliance Information
Who is eligible:
This SEP opportunity is ONLY available to beneficiaries who:
Details:
Active impacted counties for SEP purposes: Andrews, Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Baylor, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Caldwell, Callahan, Cameron, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Comal, Comanche, Coryell, Cottle, Crosby, Dallam, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Eastland, Erath, Falls, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Gaines, Garza, Gillespie, Gonzales, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hale, Hamilton, Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Hays, Henderson, Hidalgo, Howard, Hutchinson, Jones, Kendall, Kent, Kerr ,King, Kinney, Lipscomb, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, McLennan, Medina, Mills, Mitchell, Montgomery, Moore, Motley, Nolan, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Polk, Potter, Randall, Real, Roberts, Scurry, Shackelford, Sherman, Stonewall, Swisher, Taylor, Terry, Travis, Uvalde, and Yoakum counties
Counties to be removed effective 12/31/2022: Bastrop, Brazoria, Brewster, Burnet, Calhoun, Clay, Coke, Coleman, Colorado, Concho, Fayette, Frio, Galveston, Glasscock, Haskell, Hill, Hood, Kimble, Knox, Lampasas, Leon, Limestone, Llano, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Palo Pinto, Parker, Runnels, Schleicher, Somervell, Stephens, Sterling, Tom Green, Washington, Wichita, Wilbarger, and Williamson counties
SEP incident date for active counties: 07/08/2022 – Ongoing
SEP incident date for counties to be removed: 07/08/2022 –12/31/2022
This SEP declaration is effective: 07/08/2022 – Ongoing
*Note: Eligible enrollments will be effective the first of the month after the application has been processed.
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