Benefits

One-Time Open Enrollment Opportunity for Optional LTD
March 1 through March 31, 2019

One-Time Open Enrollment Opportunity for Optional Long-Term Disability

March 1^st through March 31^st, 2019

March 1^st through 31^st, 2019, you will have a special, one-time open enrollment opportunity for optional long-term disability insurance. You can enroll or reduce your waiting period without providing evidence of insurability (proof of good health). If you haven’t enrolled in optional LTD in the past, or didn’t want to provide proof of good health, now is a great time to reconsider this benefit.

Why is this unique?
Though employees can enroll in or change their optional LTD insurance at any time, normally they must provide evidence of insurability (proof of good health) – which includes authorizing their health practitioner to release their medical records to the plan provider, Standard Insurance – if they are enrolling after their original 31-day enrollment window.

• This opportunity is available to every PEBB benefits eligible employee, including those who have been previously denied optional LTD insurance coverage.
  

How to make a change?

• Complete the LTD One-Time Open Enrollment/Change Form and return it to the Benefits Office (318 SHW) between March 1^st – 31^st, 2019. The form will also be available in the Benefits Office and on the Benefits website under the section Long-Term Disability coverage.
• Changes made during this one-time open enrollment will be effective May 1, 2019.

For questions contact the Benefits Office at 509.359.2488 or by email at benefits@ewu.edu. Employees who will be on PEBB Continuation Coverage (Unpaid Leave) in March 2019 should contact the PEBB Program at 1-800-200-1004 for more information.

Information about LTD is available:

• In the LTD Plan booklet
• On the HCA’s website’s Long-Term Disability insurance page
• LTD insurance premium rates on the HCA’s website
• Decision Support Tool on The Standard’s website