Dear Colleagues,
This email is only intended for adjuncts who are newly eligible for Adjunct Health Insurance in Fall 2024. If you are currently enrolled and you fulfill both the current hours requirement and the requirement that no other coverage has become available to you, then there is nothing that you need to do at this time. Your coverage will continue.
Requirements for initial eligibility.
Adjunct health insurance is available to you if you are an adjunct employed by CUNY (excluding the Research Foundation or work through grant-support) and you meet the following three criteria:
1. You are not covered by or eligible to be covered by other basic health insurance by virtue of employment of self or spouse or through government entitlement.
2. You have fulfilled the continuity requirement.
3. You fulfill the current hours requirement.
For more information on these eligibility requirements click here
Health Benefits information – (rates, benefits summaries, enrollment forms).
Health insurance is provided by the NYC Office of Labor Relations. Please see attached pdf for the current rate sheet for health insurance plans*. The zero premium health plans (no monthly premium) are GHI-CBP, HIP HMO and Metro Plus Gold. .
To view a summary of each health insurance plan click here. Please note that if you are considering GHI- CBP then you also need to review Empire BlueCross BlueShield Hospital Plan Only (Companion to GHI-CBP Medical Coverage)
*Coverage under the adjunct health insurance plan is individual-only. Family health insurance premiums must be paid on a monthly basis. The family premium will be deducted from your bank account. It is not possible to deduct premiums from your paycheck.
Prescriptions, dental, vision and hearing aid benefits are provided by the PSC Welfare Fund at no cost to the eligible adjunct faculty member**. For information on the PSC benefits (dental, vision, drug and hearing aid) see below:
· For information on Vision click here
· For information on Prescriptions click here
· For information on the Hearing benefit click here
· For information on Dental click here
· For information on Survivor Death Benefit (Adjuncts) Click here
**Coverage under Welfare Fund Family Supplement benefits (RX, Dental, Vision) plan is individual-only. Family premiums must be paid on a quarterly basis. Enrollment in NYC-basic health insurance, family coverage, is requisite. The Welfare Fund Family Enrollment Supplement form is here.
FORMS TO BE COMPLETED
1. Health Benefits Application click here (Health Insurance Plan)
2. Adjunct PSC-CUNY Enrollment Form click here (Prescriptions, Dental, Vision, and Hearing Aid)
3. Adjunct Health Insurance Certification Form click here
4. Adjunct Health Insurance Verification Form click here
5. Adjunct Recurring Payment Election Form (ACH) and copy of a voided check click here (only necessary if you choose a plan with a premium)
6) Death Benefit Beneficiary Designation Card click here
Effective dates and deadline to enroll.
The effective date for the Health Insurance plan is 08/28/2024 and the effective date for prescriptions, dental, vision and hearing aid benefits is 09/01/2024, provided that all of the completed enrollment forms are received by the deadline of 5 P.M on Friday, September 27, 2024.
You may email your enrollment package as one password protected pdf to Naila Mahmood Naila.Mahmood@csi.cuny.edu. Send the password in a separate email. Please do not send Jpegs or Gifs. We need the forms as one password protected pdf file. Or you can drop forms off to Human Resources 1A 201, 9-5 pm from Monday to Friday starting, Monday, August 12, 2024 until Friday, September 27, 2024 by 5 PM.
Human Resources invites new adjunct employees and/or current adjunct employees, who are interested in learning more about adjunct benefits (including but not limited to Health Insurance, Pension, Tax Deferred Annuities, Transit, Tuition waiver etc.) to attend one of two virtual adjunct employee benefits orientations being offered on September 3rd at 3:00 PM and September 17th, 2024 at 3:00 PM. Zoom details to follow next week in a separate email.
You may also find more information on benefits available to Adjuncts (including retirement) at Adjunct Retirement Benefits, Voluntary Benefits and Tax-Deferred Annuity (TDA) Plans, and 457(b) Plan .
Anne Alarcon
Human Resources
