CONTINUATION OF INSURANCE WITH PREMIUM PAYMENT (continued) this Policy has ended, unless such insurance is replaced by similar insurance under another group insurance policy issued to the Policyholder or its successor. 2. You may choose to Port the reduced amount of insurance if Your Portability Eligible Insurance is reduced due to: an amendment to the Plan which affects the amount of insurance for Your class. 3. Your former Spouse or State-Registered Domestic Partner may choose to Port if their Portability Eligible Dependent Insurance on their own life ends because: You die; or Your marriage ends in divorce, annulment, or dissolution; or Your State-Registered Domestic Partnership, or Legal Union ends provided that former Spouse or State-Registered Domestic Partner satisfies the Additional Requirement subsection of the ELIGIBILITY PROVISIONS; INSURANCE FOR YOUR DEPENDENTS. 4. Your former Spouse or State-Registered Domestic Partner may also Port Portability Eligible Dependent Insurance on Your Child if Your former Spouse or State-Registered Domestic Partner Ports insurance on their own life. If Your former Spouse or State-Registered Domestic Partner Ports that insurance on that Child, that Porting will have no effect on the insurance You may have on that Child. 5. Your former Child may request to Port Portability Eligible Dependent Insurance on their own life if that insurance ends because Your former Child no longer meets the definition of Child. If a request is made under this subsection, We will issue a new certificate of insurance which will explain the new insurance benefits. The insurance benefits under the new certificate may not be the same as those that ended under this Policy. A request under this subsection may be made, if on the date the Portability Eligible Insurance or Portability Eligible Dependent Insurance ended, the following requirements are met: the Group Policy is in effect; with respect to any amount of Portability Eligible Life Insurance or Portability Eligible Dependent Life Insurance that is to be Ported, no application has been made to convert that amount of insurance to an individual policy of life insurance as provided in the section entitled LIFE INSURANCE: CONVERSION OPTION FOR YOU or the section entitled LIFE INSURANCE: CONVERSION OPTION FOR YOUR DEPENDENTS; and the person making the request resides in a jurisdiction that permits this Portability feature. Request Period For You or a former Dependent to Port, We must receive a completed request form within the Request Period as described below. If written notice of the option to Port is given within 15 days before or after the date such insurance ends, the Request Period: begins on the date the insurance ends, and expires 60 days after the date. If written notice of the option to Port is given more than 15 days after but within 91 days of the date such insurance ends, the Request Period: begins on the date the insurance ends, and expires 45 days after the date of the notice. GCERT2024-WSHCA-WA-LIFE-EMPLOYEE1 56
