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.
If your group health plan provides coverage to dependent children, the plan generally must extend coverage to children up to age 26 (i.e. before the childâs 26 th birthday) effective with the first plan year that begins on or after September 23, 2010 (January 1, 2011 for calendar-year plans).xample A group health plan offers a choice of self-only or family health coverage. Dependent coverage is provided under family health coverage for children of participants who have not attained age 26.