The Ohio Department of Insurance has created this on-line toolkit to help those recently laid off, current employees and retirees understand coverage options if they have lost their health and/or life insurance benefits. Information on unemployment benefits is also provided. Anyone with questions can call the Department’s consumer hotline at 1-800-686-1526.

Health Insurance

• How to Find Health Insurance After Losing Employer-Provided Coverage
   
• Retiree Health Coverage Options when Employer Reduces or Terminates Benefits 
   
• Shopper’s Guide to Health Insurance 
   
• Shopper's Guide to Medicare Supplement Insurance and Medicare Options
   
• Ohio Medicaid Program
   
• U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs
   
• Partnership for Prescription Assistance 
   
• Patient Access Network Foundation 
   
• Ohio Association of Free Clinics

Life Insurance

• Finding Life Insurance as an Employee or Retiree After Losing Employer Provided Coverage
   
• Understanding the Importance and Basics of Life Insurance 
   
• Shopper’s Guide to Life Insurance

Employer Bankruptcy/Job Loss

• Unemployment Benefits: Ohio Department of Job and Family Services 
   
• Resources for the Unemployed and Uninsured
   
• Important Information Workers Need to Know to Protect their Health Coverage and Retirement Benefits 
   
• Your Employer's Bankruptcy: How Will It Affect Your Employee Benefits? 
   
• Protecting Pension and Health Care Benefits after Job Loss 
   
• COBRA
   
• How Federal Stimulus Act(s) Affect COBRA Insurance 
   
• Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act

Contact and Outreach Information

• Ohio Department of Insurance: 1-800-686-1526; Speaker request, click here.
  Consumers and employers can call with any insurance questions and to request a speaker. 
   
• Ohio Department of Job and Family Services: 1-877-852-0010
  Consumer and employers can call with questions about unemployment benefits. 
   
• U.S. Department of Labor: 1-866-444-3272
  Administers a variety of federal labor laws including certain health insurance regulation, unemployment insurance and other income support.