Of note, neither company's severance agreement prohibited the former employee from submitting a tip to the SEC or participating in an investigation. Indeed, after the SEC's whistleblower rules were promulgated, as part of its regular periodic review and update of its agreements, Health Net revised its form severance agreement to specifically state the former employees were not prohibited from participating in a government investigation, but rather just forfeited the right to obtain an award for doing so. Although the SEC did not find that the severance agreements actually caused anyone to not report a potential violation, the SEC fined BlueLinx $250,000 and Health Net $360,000 and required each to take corrective action to make clear their former employees are not prohibited from participating in the SEC's whistleblower program.