Retiree Health Benefits

 

Retired Employees

Your Medical, Dental and Vision options are posted by bargaining unit, please find your bargaining unit on the right hand side of this screen and click on it to view your options for the calendar year 2025. A calendar year runs from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025.

Dependent Eligibility

To be eligible for coverage, and remain on your plans, a dependent must be a spouse, registered domestic partner, or child*. A birth certificate, marriage license or state-registered domestic partnership must be submitted at the initial enrollment of a child or spouse.

*Child Eligibility

Medical Dental and Vision — Children can be covered up until the end of the month in which they turn 26. Exception: If the child is enrolled in benefits through their own employer or a spouse, they are not eligible for the district coverage.

 

Eligibility (Retiree):

To be eligible for medical benefits upon retirement, the unit member must have fifteen (15) years of service with the District. The service years do not need to be consecutive; however, there may be a break in service of no more than thirty-nine (39) months per separation. A full year of service is defined as the unit member having been in paid status for seventy-five percent (75%) or more of an assigned school year.

Dependent Eligibility

To be eligible for coverage, and remain on your plans, a dependent must be a spouse, registered same sex domestic partner, or child*. A birth certificate, marriage license or state-registered domestic partnership must be submitted at the initial enrollment of a child or spouse.

*Child Eligibility – Children can be covered up until the end of the month in which they turn 26.

Qualifying Life Events

Once enrolled, your benefit elections are irrevocable for the year until the next open enrollment period unless you experience a Change in Status as defined under the Regulations by Department of The Treasury IRS § 125.

Below are examples of change in status qualifying life events. In order to make a change due to a qualifying life event, the employee must notify the Benefits Office within 30 days of the life event.

  • Change in legal marital status, including marriage, death of a spouse, divorce and annulment.
  • A change in the number of dependents, including birth, death, adoption and placement for adoption.
  • A change in employment status of the employee, spouse or dependent including termination or commencement of employment, part-time and full-time.
  • A change in coverage of a spouse or dependent under another employer’s plan.
  • A COBRA qualifying event.
  • Loss of coverage under the group health plan.
  • Become entitled to Medicare