2. verb. If you foster a child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent. She has since gone on to find happiness by fostering more than 100 children. [VERB noun]
Yes, a stepchild is eligible to be a dependent on your health plan up to the age of 26. If your coverage is an employer group plan that provides benefits to children, you will be given at least 30 days to enroll the new dependent. An eligible child can be a biological child, adopted child, stepchild or foster child.f your coverage is an employer group plan that provides benefits to children, you will be given at least 30 days to enroll the new dependent. An eligible child can be a biological child, adopted child, stepchild or foster child.
Since a step-child is not legally a child of the step parent, that step-parentâs health insurance family coverage does not, absent some specific contractual clause or state law, have to cover the step-child, any more than an employeeâs health insurance has to cover the children of boyfriends, girlfriends, or affianced.fter adoption, the children would be eligible for health insurance under the adoptive parent's plan. Conclusion. 1. Itâs always worth pursuing whether the step-parent and children could be covered under the other spouseâs insurance.