Who's On Your Insurance Plan? Do They Belong There? About.com: Health
AUDIT -- it's a five letter word that is merely a nuisance to some - and terrifying to others. Of course, unless you are a business owner, or an accountant, it's probably not something you lose a lot of sleep over.
Until now.
As a sign of the very-expensive-health-costs times, your employer may decide to do an audit of its own -- an audit of the dependents on your health insurance. Why? Because health costs have become a major expense to employers, and they are looking to rein in those costs as much as possible.
Here's what happens: you get a letter from your employer telling you they are doing a dependent audit . Specifically they are looking to see if you have claimed anyone on your health insurance who shouldn't be there. People like:
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