GENERAL
What are some reasons for requesting Temporary Absence coverage?
travel due to employment/business engagement outside Alberta o full time studies at an accredited educational institute outside Alberta o vacation or visit outside Canada, planning to return to Alberta within 6 months o vacation or visit within Canada, planning to return to Alberta within 6 to 12 months o educational leave from employment for advanced training/sabbatical leave o missionary work for an approved registered religious organization outside Alberta o dependants staying in previous province/territory due to health reasons o person hospitalized in another province/territory while travelling to new residence outside of Alberta o Long term vacationer absent from Alberta 183 to 212 days out of the year
Permanent Alberta residents including Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents (landed immigrants); does not require a control date; indicates a person has newly arrived or returned to Alberta to take up permanent residence
A
What stat code is a student?
What stat code is student in the transition period (sept)
4
7
What is a G code?
G: indicates a person on a vacation or visit inside Canada for over 12 months or outside Canada for over 6 months to a maximum of 24 consecutive months from the month of departure
What code is a snowbird?
F
Do accompanying family members need to be coded for temp absence?
Accompanying family members (spouse/adult interdependent partner and/or dependant children) are eligible for the same temporary absence coverage as the applicant but are not assigned a Residency Control code or date.
A person travelling due to employment or business engagement outside Alberta what is the maximum time they are allowed to be away? What is the residency control code?
q/b 48 consecutive months
Do you assign a residency control code E for in province students?
No they are just a 4
Oilers hockey player going out of country to play what docs are required?
Docs from employer/ q code, verification of residency
What is the max allowable time?
183 to 212 days (7 months) out of the year
Who is in-eligible for temp absence?
Temporary permit holders, refugee claimants, people who have not yet met the residency requirement.
Explain what recurring absence codes would be?
Is there a maximum allowable amount of time?
D,E,F
No, verification of residency every 24 months (D & F)
Proof of enrollment (E)
Do you assign an E code to a student who has not yet left AB to study?
No they must call back
Caller is notifying she is going for a training to Mexico for 8 months what control code? Docs?
P
must provide a letter from the employer confirming training and length of absence
How must they confirm their residency?
Verification of residency form or over the phone
Can persons who plan to be away for longer periods ask for an extension of coverage?
Yes,coverage will only be provided for the period of absence to the maximum time allowed for that reason of absence
A refugee claimant has arrived and given birth to a baby in AB, are they eligible? What code? Docs? Validity?
Yes
K, with children of non-eligible parents form and birth cert, parents proof of residency and ID
1 year from first application
2 years from phone notification after expiry
What is the advantage of a dependent staying on their parents account?
Consent can talk on behalf of dependent
Access of info and cards
May or may not affect private insurance
When is residency control code changed from N to A?
What questions would you ask to renew their status?
When did you leave?
Where did you go?
When did you get back?
What are your plans for the coming year?
If yes they are over 7, ask about the previous year and if also over, advise their coverage will remain cancelled as they are not meeting eligibility requirement
What temporary absences can be changed to extended absences even when reaching allowable time limit?
EA-EA, EA-TA.
John is calling and cannot confirm neither his mailing/physical address and has let you know he has been travelling back and forth from BC for the past 5 years, what residency control code would you assign him? Do you tell him? What form does he need to send back?
Q code for 6 months from date of notification
Yes
Verification of Residency
Do we require previous years of proof of enrollment for a student stating they have been already oop studying for 2 years but our records show this is his first notification?
No
Is someone who has a THR residency control code V (6 months of coverage) eligible?
No