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Benefits Guide Booklet

2025 Employee Benefits Guide

Effective July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

Eligibility

Full-time employees are eligible for benefits; you are a full time employee if you are:

  • A Certified employee .5 FTE or more
  • An A/P/T or a Classified employee working at least 30 hours per week. 

New hire coverage begins the first of the month following your date of hire or benefitted position start date, if hired part time. 

Your eligible dependents include:

  • Your spouse or same sex domestic partner
  • All natural, adopted or stepchildren, to the end of the month in which they turn 26
  • Disabled children of any age who are (or become) physically or mentally incapable of self-support while covered by our employee benefits program. 

Annual Open Enrollment

Your Benefits open enrollment begins on April 7, 2025, and continues through April 18, 2025. The benefits you choose during open enrollment become available on July 1, 2025, and continue through June 30, 2026. 

Open Enrollment is the time to consider your benefit needs and make new choices. All benefit eligible employees must complete an online enrollment to:

  • Enroll or Waive in one of the Aetna Medical Plans
  • Enroll or Waive in the Aetna Dental Plan
  • Enroll or Waive in the EyeMed Vision PLan
  • Enroll or Waive in the WCSD6 sponsored Life Plan - this is 100% employer paid benefit
  • Add or delete eligible dependents
  • Enroll or re-enroll in HSA account, applicable only if enrolled in a high deductible medical plan
  • Enroll or re-enroll in the Flexible Spending Account or Limited Flexible Spending Account
  • Enroll or waive in Aetna Voluntary Plans

Making Changes After Open Enrollment

After open enrollment, changes to your elections can only be made if you experience a qualifying life event, which would trigger a Special Enrollment Period (SEP). This would apply even if you waived coverage for yourself or your dependents. 

Examples of a qualifying life event include but are not limited to:

  • Marriage
  • Divorce or Legal separation
  • Registered domestic partnership status change
  • Birth or adoption of a child
  • Change in child's dependent status 
  • Death of a spouse, child or other qualified dependent
  • Change in residence due to an employment transfer for you, your spouse, or registered domestic partner
  • Coverage you or your dependents previously enrolled in that is ending
  • Commencement or termination of adoption proceedings
  • Change in your spouse's or registered domestic partner's benefits or employment status
  • Change in Medicare eligibility

You must request changes to your benefits coverage within 30 days of the qualified life event; additional information or documentation of the event may be required. If requests are not made within this window, you will have to wait until the next open enrollment period to make changes to your benefits coverage unless you experience another special enrollment or qualifying life event. To request special enrollment or obtain more information, contact the Benefits Office at 970-348-6114. 

*This notice is relevant for healthcare coverages subject to the HIPAA portability rules.