waiting period
Defined in 3 places across 3 titles of the United States Code.
The term “waiting period” means, with respect to a group health plan and an individual who is a potential participant or beneficiary in the plan, the period that must pass with respect to the individual before the individual is eligible to be covered for benefits under the terms of the plan.
Same definition in 2 sections
- 1996–present26 U.S.C. § 9801Internal Revenue Code · Increased portability through limitation on preexisting condition exclusions · for purposes of this section
- 1996–present29 U.S.C. § 1181Labor · Increased portability through limitation on preexisting condition exclusions · for purposes of this part
The term “waiting period” means, in the case of any application for disability insurance benefits, the earliest period of five consecutive calendar months—
(A) throughout which the individual with respect to whom such application is filed has been under a disability, and
(B)
(i) which begins not earlier than with the first day of the seventeenth month before the month in which such application is filed if such individual is insured for disability insurance benefits in such seventeenth month, or (ii) if he is not so insured in such month, which begins not earlier than with the first day of the first month after such seventeenth month in which he is so insured.
Source
- 2013–202242 U.S.C. § 423The Public Health and Welfare · Disability insurance benefit payments · for purposes of this section
The term "waiting period" means, in the case of any application for disability insurance benefits, the earliest period of five consecutive calendar months—
(A) throughout which the individual with respect to whom such application is filed has been under a disability, and
(B) (i) which begins not earlier than with the first day of the seventeenth month before the month in which such application is filed if such individual is insured for disability insurance benefits in such seventeenth month, or (ii) if he is not so insured in such month, which begins not earlier than with the first day of the first month after such seventeenth month in which he is so insured.
Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this paragraph, no waiting period may begin for any individual before January 1, 1957.
Source
- 1994–present42 U.S.C. § 423The Public Health and Welfare · Disability insurance benefit payments · for purposes of this section