Eligibility Requirements

Eligibility Criteria

To qualify for dental coverage, you must meet all of the following criteria:

• Be a Farm Bureau member.
• Be a Michigan resident and live in the state for a minimum of six months each year.
• Not be eligible for Blues' group dental coverage through an employer.
• Not have any other dental coverage.
• Have not had prior Farm Bureau-sponsored Blues dental coverage that canceled within the past year.

Eligible dependents under age 19

Applicants to the dental plan are eligible for spouse and dependent coverage. Dependent children are covered through the end of the calendar year in which they turn 19 years of age if, and as long as, the subscriber continues to be covered under this plan and both of the following requirements are met:

• They are related to you by birth, marriage, legal adoption or legal guardianship.
• They are unmarried.

Extended coverage for dependent children ages 19-25

Coverage for dependent children may be extended beyond the end of the calendar year in which they turn 19 years of age if, and as long as, the subscriber continues to be covered under this plan and all of the following requirements are met:

• They are related to you by birth, marriage, legal adoption or legal guardianship.
• They are between 19 and 25 years of age.
• They are unmarried.
• They live with you (unless they reside somewhere else temporarily, as in the case of college students).
• They receive more than half of their support from you.
• They are full-time students for at least five months of the year or have a gross income of less than four times the personal exemption amount identified by the current IRS Code.