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• Academic Employees are entitled to either 13 or 26 payroll periods of full health coverage at the employee share of health cost.
  • Employees who work one semester during the academic year receive 13 payroll periods of coverage, employees who work both semesters have a 26 payroll period entitlement.

• The thirteen or 26 pay period entitlement begins from the effective date of your coverage

  • Example #1 Spring semester hire , 13 paryoll period entitlement
    :

    Hire date: 1/2/02
    Effective date of coverage: 2/13/02 (42 day wait for new employees)
    Entitlement of 13 payroll periods of coverage will make the termination of health insurance effective 8/13/03 at close of business.

  • Example #2 Fall semester hire, works two semesters, 26 payroll period entitlement, returning employee for following Fall:
    
    

  Hire date: 8/19/02
  Effective date of coverage: 9/30/02
  No break in covergage

  • Example #3 Fall semester hire, works two semesters, 26 payroll period entitlement, employee not returning for following Fall:

    
    Hire date: 8/19/02
    Effective date of coverage: 9/30/02
    Entitlement of 26 payroll periods of coverage will make the termination of health insurance effective 9/24/03

     

  Graduate and Teaching Assistants:

• Graduate and Teaching Assistants have summer coverage available to them providing they expect to return to the payroll in the Fall of the following academic year.