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Not sure how is enforce, but the company I work in does the same thing. Where I work, every year when you apply for benefits you have to disclose your spouse does not get benefits from another source.
Yeah, I'm not sure how they would enforce such a thing. They want to check with my spouse employer, which is sort of interesting how that will pan out.
I worked in an employee service call center before. We had a spousal surcharge that would be charged to the employee if their spouse was eligible for benefits elsewhere but not sure how that was enforced.
We also have Spousal Surcharge. It is enforced via the honor system. However, we let emplpyees know that falsifying their enrollment os the same as falsifying company records whoch is grounds for termination. We. Ever enforce that, however. Just tell them to scare them if they are getting salty about it.
Would not say it is common, but it does happen and is entirely legal so long as they are consistent in the administration of the benefits for the eligibility group.
Basically, the employer has identified spouses as being significant cost drivers for their health plan previously and decided to mitigate the cost exposure. And with so many families being dual income, they likely decided the spouse’s medical expense belongs with their employer or the healthcare exchange.
Oh I have never actually heard of that. I wouldn't say that it is common but I guess by reading some of these comments it does happen. Thats crazy to me that companies would say that....I would think they would want to offer benefits for spouses.
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Spouse penalty. You sign an affidavit saying you're not lying. AbbVie/Abbott is one of those employers that does it. The penalty can be significant if you decide to put your spouse on, like a few hundred bucks per month extra. Or, in this case, it sounds forbidden altogether.