---
title: "Get Cobra Events"
method: GET
path: "/api/hris/v1/cobra-events"
tags: ["COBRA Events"]
---

# Get Cobra Events

`GET /api/hris/v1/cobra-events`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.bindbee.dev` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.bindbee.dev/api/hris/v1/cobra-events`
- Auth: HTTP bearer and API key in header `X-Connector-Token`

Returns a list of COBRA Event objects.

## Query parameters

- `ids` string, nullable: The ID of the COBRA events to fetch
- `employee_id` string, nullable: The ID of the employees to fetch COBRA events for
- `event_category` string, nullable: The federal qualifying event category to filter by. Pass several values, comma-separated, to match any of them.
- `remote_id` string, nullable: The third-party API ID of the matching object.
- `include_raw_data` boolean: Whether to include the original data Bindbee fetched from the third-party to produce these models.
- `include_custom_fields` boolean: Whether to include custom fields in the response.
- `modified_after` string, nullable: If provided, only objects synced by Bindbee after this date time will be returned. Format: DateTime (ISO 8601). If no timezone offset is supplied, the value is interpreted as UTC.
- `qualifying_event_date_from` string, nullable: If provided, only objects with qualifying_event_date same or after this date time will be returned. Format: DateTime (ISO 8601). If no timezone offset is supplied, the value is interpreted as UTC.
- `qualifying_event_date_to` string, nullable: If provided, only objects with qualifying_event_date same or before this date time will be returned. Format: DateTime (ISO 8601). If no timezone offset is supplied, the value is interpreted as UTC.
- `page_size` integer: Number of results to return per page. Maximum size is 200.
- `cursor` string, nullable: The pagination cursor value.
- `expand` string, nullable: Which relations should be returned in expanded form. Multiple relation names should be comma separated without spaces. You can also specify required fields in [] for each relation name. Add `.custom_fields` to return an expanded record's custom fields, or `.custom_fields[name,other_name]` for only those (quote a name holding anything but letters, digits, `_` and `-`: `.custom_fields["wd:Visa_ID"]`).

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- PaginatedResponseHrisCobraEvent
  - `cursor` string, nullable, required: Cursor value to fetch next set of items
  - `page_size` integer, required: The page size the request was served with (0 on an empty page). `items` can be shorter on the last page; `cursor` says whether another page exists.
  - `items` HrisCobraEvent[], required: List of items in the current response
    - `id` string, uuid, required
    - `remote_id` string, nullable, required: The third-party API ID of the matching object.
    - `modified_at` string, date-time, required: This is the datetime that this object was last updated by Bindbee
    - `raw_data` object, nullable: This is the Raw data
    - `custom_fields` object, nullable, required: The custom fields related to the model
    - `employee` string, nullable, required: The employee the event belongs to. Populated even when only dependents are affected, so the employee is always known.
    - `is_employee_covered` boolean, nullable, required: Whether the employee is a beneficiary of this event, as on a termination. False for a dependent-only event, such as a divorce or a dependent aging out.
    - `covered_dependents` unknown[], nullable, required: The dependents who are beneficiaries of this event.
      - unknown
    - `qualifying_event_reason` string, nullable, required: The reason for the event as recorded in the third-party system, passed through as is.
    - `event_category` string, nullable, required: The federal COBRA qualifying event derived from qualifying_event_reason. OTHER when the reason matches no federal event.
    - `qualifying_event_date` string, nullable, required: The date of the qualifying event as the third-party system records it. It can differ from the date coverage is lost, so COBRA notice deadlines are not always counted from it.
    - `linked_employer_benefits` unknown[], nullable, required: The employer benefit plans the event relates to. Null when the third-party system does not tie COBRA data to plans.
      - unknown

## Other responses

- `401`: Missing or invalid bearer authentication credentials.
- `403`: The credentials are valid but do not permit access to this resource, e.g. a connector token used on a different API category or a model whose writes are disabled.
- `422`: Validation Error
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded.

## Changes

- **2026-10-26** `53c56eb9a93c`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/bindbee/apis/bindbee-apis/changes/api/hris/v1/cobra-events/get.md)

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