The Costs of Splitting Benefits with Tyler Wrage
How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships
English - October 05, 2021 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsRelationships Society & Culture Kids & Family divorce relationship split break-up Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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All right, we get it. A review of benefits programs might not seem like the most entertaining fodder for a podcast about divorce. But wait, just hear us out.
See, if you're on your spouses benefits program, you could be looking a unraveling a potentially expensive web of coverage, from life insurance to health plans to pensions, IRAs, and 401ks, each of which leads to choice you get to make on a specific — and regulated — time table.
So, what happens when your divorce gets in the way of the coverage that helps you stay healthy and feel safe? Tyler Wrage is a benefits consultant with The Strategic Group and joins us to walk us through the process of separation of shared benefits.
(00:00) - Welcome to How to Split a Toaster
(00:26) - Tyler Wrage, Benefits Specialist
(03:23) - Types of Insurance
(05:10) - Insurance During Divorce
(06:18) - COBRA
(09:56) - Standing Order and Post-Divorce
(14:04) - Cost
(17:43) - Timing
(22:21) - If It's My Insurance
(23:39) - Good Will During the Process
(26:17) - Pitfalls Today
(30:41) - Health Savings Accounts
(31:46) - Finding Tyler
(32:41) - Question Corner
(38:29) - Wrapping Up