How do i get my child an i.d card and health insurance?
my child's father is in the military and he has not put him on his insurance and is not receiving the benefits he should and doesn't seem like he is anytime soon. We are not married and i was wondering is there anything i could do to get the benefits my child should recieve. I have talked to him and he does nothing.... i do have his SSN i do recieve child support and on the order it says he is responsible for health insurance and etc he is on the birth certificate i have full custody
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Contact your lawyer. I am not certain but I do not believe - since you were not married - that the child is entitled to benefit of health care and ID card. The father is responsible for child support as stipulated by whatever state you live in-- and what the courts deem as fair and reasonable.
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go to the closest military base or armory and ask to speak with someone who has access to DEERS. its the electronic system the military uses to link dependants to their military parents for benefits. you will need to provide a birth certificate with the childs father's name listed on the birth cert. you will also need the childs social security card. it would be very helpful if you had the fathers social security nukmber as well so they can look him up to add dependants. once the child has been entered into DEERS they will issue an ID depending on the childs age. if the child is too young they will not issue an ID. i think 1st grade is the earliest they will ussue an ID. THEN..... once you have your child enrolled in DEERS you need to get on the internet and enroll your child in Tricare for health benefits. This is where you will DEFINITELY need the childs fathers information. once you complete the application, print it and fax it in. you will receive insurance cards for you child within a couple weeks, but benefits will be instant once the enrollment package is received and processed. once you are in DEERS and Tricare, you can begin using benefits immediately, so if your little bugger gets sick or needs any help, you just go to the doctor and get him/her taken care of. there should NEVER be a fee involved with services. sometimes you MIGHT have to pay a partial fee for prescriptions and other take home items, but the actual service will not cost you a single penny.
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The first step is making sure he has a copy of your child's birth certificate, assumimig it has his name on it. Without that, or some other proof he is the father, he will get nothing. If he is paying you child support then he is screwing himself by not claiming your child because that would make him eligible to get extra money in the form of BAH-DIFF. If he isn't getting any benefits at all then that probably means he didn't even mention he has a child. If he did then a possible reason he did it was because saying he had a child would have stopped his enlistment. Do you have full custody or joint custody with him? If you don't have full custody then he probably neglected to tell the military he had a child due to the fact that he would have been ineligible for enlistment based on him having joint custody with you. That would explain his hesitation, considering that he could be charged with fraudulent enlistment for concealing a dependent.
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If they are his dependents (as stated by the court) either he can personally take them to PSD and ID and enroll in DEERS and get ID cards, or he can go to PSD have them added to his Page 2 entered into DEERS and fill out a form at ID mail it to you and you take them to ID so they can get their dependent ID. But really do you need to worry about health care, Obama-care will be here soon!
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Get to DEERS. Enrollment in DEERS automatically enrolls you in health care. IF your child has a problem (IE: becomes sick and hospitalized), then the coverage will pick up once he's enrolled since he's already eligible. Just because he's not enrolled... doesn't mean he's not getting the benefits. If he does get sick, then your child's father can enroll him in DEERS, and they will pick up anything from the original eligible point. (Even before enrollment.) Oh and you don't get an insurance card. Your insurance card is your military ID, or in this case, your child's. The policy number is your child's father's SSN.
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you must have a court order for both child support and requiring the father to enroll the child into DEERS and get Tricare(medical Inurance). with one in hand you can contact the command and ask that it be enforced.
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I would look at a website like http://healthinsuranceconnection.info/ They show the rates of all the health insurance companies and provide which price would be the cheapest for your situation.
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