What Is Dawn? Dawn refers to the transition from night to day as the sky gets brighter and the morning twilight heralds the beginning of a new day. The term has different colloquial meanings, but there is also a scientific definition. Dawn on Santorini island, Greece.
Summary The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires benefit plans that provide coverage for dependents to cover adult children to age 26, effective for plan renewals beginning on or after September 23, 2010.randfathered plans may voluntarily offer to cover dependents to 26 without jeopardizing their grandfather status. In contrast, non-grandfathered plans are required to extend the coverage as of plan renewal on or after September 23, 2010, regardless of eligibility for other employer coverage.
1 The requirement applies to medical plans that already offer dependent coverage. 2  While most plans include dependent coverage, it is not required. 3  Any eligible child can remain covered until age 26, even if the child is living away from home, is not a student or is working. The only limited exception is that grandfathered plans can exclude coverage for adult children until 2014 if the adult children are eligible to enroll in an employer-sponsored plan other than the plan of either parent. 2  The law does not require plans to cover adult childrenâs spouses or children in a COBRA status.