Common use of Plan Options Clause in Contracts

Plan Options. a. The Board shall continue to provide the benefits provided by the Van Xxxx Area Schools Insurance Group (VWASIG) for full-time incumbent certificated and incumbent classified employees under the group plan known in the District as the PPO Plan. If the full-time incumbent employee elects to participate in the PPO Plan, the Board shall pay 80% of the monthly cost, and the employee shall pay 20% of the monthly cost by payroll deduction for all three years of this collective bargaining agreement. Notwithstanding the above percentage specifications, if an incumbent full-time employee is legally precluded, due to circumstances over which such employee has no choice or control, from contributing to the high-deductible HSA Plan identified in Paragraph b below, it is understood that, during such period of legal preclusion, the employee may participate in the PPO Plan identified in this Paragraph a with the Board paying 80% of the monthly cost and the employee paying the remaining 20% of the monthly cost. By way of illustration and not limitation, examples of the sorts of circumstances over which an employee has a degree of choice or control include the following: remaining a dependent of another person for income tax purposes; having double non-HDHP (high deductible health plan) coverage through a spouse; electing Social Security benefits triggering Medicare Part A enrollment; and the like. It is further understood that any newly-hired employee (defined as a new hire whose first scheduled District work day occurs on or after July 1, 2018) who is eligible to participate in insurance benefits under this Section H cannot opt to participate in the PPO Plan at all, but, rather, must choose either to participate in the HSA Plan identified in Paragraph b below or choose not to enroll in Board-provided health insurance benefits.

Plan Options. a. The Board shall continue to provide the benefits provided by the Van Xxxx Area Schools Insurance Group (VWASIG) VWASIG for full-time full‐time incumbent certificated and incumbent classified employees under the group plan known in the District as the PPO Plan. If the full-time full‐time incumbent employee elects to participate in the PPO Plan, the Board shall pay a portion of the monthly cost as described below: July 1, 2018 – November, 2018: the Board shall pay 85% of the monthly cost and the employee shall pay the remaining 15% monthly cost by payroll deduction December, 2018 – June 30, 2019: the Board shall pay 83% of the monthly cost and the employee shall pay the remaining 17% monthly cost by payroll deduction July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020: the Board shall pay 81% of the monthly cost and the employee shall pay the remaining 19% monthly cost by payroll deduction Effective with July 2020 coverage, the Board shall pay 80% of the monthly cost, cost and the employee shall pay the remaining 20% of the monthly cost by payroll deduction for all three years of this collective bargaining agreementdeduction. Notwithstanding the above percentage specifications, however, if an incumbent full-time full‐time employee is legally precluded, due to circumstances over which such employee has no choice or control, from contributing to the high-deductible high‐deductible HSA Plan identified in Paragraph b b. below, it is understood that, during such period of legal preclusion, the employee may participate in the PPO Plan identified in this Paragraph a a. with the Board paying 8085% of the monthly cost and the employee paying the remaining 2015% of the monthly cost. By way of illustration and not limitation, examples of the sorts of circumstances over which an employee has a degree of choice or control include (and thus the followingemployee would be subject to the employee percentage monthly contributions specified in the first four sentences above in excess of 15%) include: remaining a dependent of another person for income tax purposes; having double non-HDHP non‐HDHP (high deductible health plan) coverage through a spouse; electing Social Security benefits triggering Medicare Part A enrollment; and the like. It is further understood that any newly-hired newly‐hired employee (defined as a new hire whose first scheduled District work day occurs on or after July 1, 2018) who is eligible to participate in insurance benefits under this Section H H. cannot opt to participate in the PPO Plan at all, but, rather, must choose either to participate in the HSA Plan identified in Paragraph b b. below or choose not to enroll in Board-provided Board‐provided health insurance benefits.