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well I can welcome you my name is mike dot I'm a retirement specialist with division retirement of benefits here in Juneau and today we're going to be talking about the group life and voluntary supplemental benefits we're going to be talking about the open enrollment period which is November second through the 23rd this will be for the upcoming benefit year of 2017 starting January first some of the things we're going to talk about today where I talk about group life different elements first we're going to talk about basic life which will include dependent life benefits as well as accidental death and dismemberment we're going to talk about travel accident coverage as well as select life another version then we're going to talk about the voluntary supplemental benefits this includes life insurance accidental death and dismemberment short and long-term disability and a new benefit this year critical illness and will devote some slides to that here in just a few minutes under the group life basic life as we talked about it will not be part of open enrollment this is a bargain for benefit and the benefit depends on your bargaining unit all permanent long-term non permanent employees are eligible the premium for this benefit is paid by the state now you see some of the different groups that are participating confidential ggu supervisory exempt this group and this listing the plan would pay $10,000 life insurance for all others it would pay 2,000 there's also a dependent life benefit with this and in fact that if your spouse died the plan would pay a thousand dollars for the death of your spouse if you have a dependent child that might die the plan would pay based on age starting at a hundred dollars for age 14 days to six months all the way up to a thousand dollars if you're dependent child as age 14 through 19 or up to age 23 if you're dependent is full-time student there's also a accidental death and dismemberment element of the group life basic plan so it would cover you as the employee only in the event of death the plan would pay $5,000 additional for accidental death regardless amount of the basic life amount that had been negotiated with your group two thousand or ten thousand for dismemberment they would pay five thousand dollars if you lost both hands both feet side in both eyes or any combination and it would pay 2500 if you lose one hand one foot or the sight in one eye now as we continue on travel accident again is not part of open enrollment it covers all employees while in travel status it is pay again paid for by the state and it's a bargain for benefit here again we list some of the groups that are on here and the amounts that it pays for GT you as an example supervisory exempt the plan would pay two hundred thousand dollars for travel accident death miba a 75,000 and then all other plans groups would pay 100 thousand now we have a little table here that kind of gives you a little idea of the loss and the benefit amount that would be paid so as an example under this coverage loss of life the benefit would be the full amount both hands both feet or the sight of both eyes also would be the full amount one hand and one foot one hand and the side of one eye one foot in the side of 1i all would pay the full amount and if the loss is one hand or one foot or the sight of one eye the plan would pay a half of the full amount now there's some value-added services that come along with basic life they talk about counseling and guidance for some of the challenging times you may go through there is a grief counseling benefit which is designed to provide support tools and services for coping with a loss or a serious medical condition and that life will provide phone or face-to-face grief counseling there is also a will Center calm which is an online document service to assist in will preparation some additional benefits there's funeral assistance planning some of these services range from a self-paced funeral planning guide to assistance in locating funeral homes obtaining cost estimates and finding local support groups there's also a total control account or a TCA which is actually a standard method that is used to pay death claims the insurance proceeds are paid to your beneficiary no fishy arey via the TCA which is an interest-bearing account the check writing privileges that provide full access to the insurance proceeds another benefit is the MetLife infinity plan which is a secure online resource for you to create a digital legacy for your beneficiaries state administrators or others and you can upload your wills powers of attorney videos and other digital images now select life is an employee paid benefit not employer paid and it's available to most permanent and long-term non permanent employees and the benefit equals your annual salary rounded up to the nearest thousand dollars the maximum that would be under the coverage would be a hundred thousand dollars for supervisory and confidential employees and a sixty thousand dollar maximum for all others it is a post tax payroll deduction for monthly premium and we'll talk in a few moments the difference with post tax and pre-tax your Roman this year will be done or can be done two ways in the past you could only enroll by our paper form this year you can enroll with the paper form or online so you have two different ways that you can enroll in this benefit if you'd like to choose it now select life the premiums are effective January first and the new premium will be on a second January check this plan pays the lump sum and the coverage is portable we'll be talking about that a little more just a few moments as well there is also an accidental death component of the select plan it would pay double if a death is accidental the death must occur within a hundred days of any accident and be clearly linked to the accident so as an example if you had 58 thousand dollars and select live coverage if your death was due to an accident plan would pay out a hundred and sixteen thousand dollars to your beneficiary there's also a dismemberment benefit in which the plan will pay up to the same 60 or $100,000 maximums we mentioned before if you lose both hands both feet side in both eyes or any combination one hand and one foot we would pay the full amount 60 or hundred thousand one hand and the site of one I would pay the full amount one foot and the site of one I would pay the full amount one hand or one foot would pay a half the full amount and the side of one I would pay a half to full them out now one thing we had changed this year we had worked with another vendor for a number of years we're now working with a very good company midlife and so therefore you go see some slides with snoopy and they're working with us on the voluntary supplemental benefits so you'll see some Snoopy slides as we go through this a little bit from time to time under the voluntary supplemental benefits these are in addition to the basic coverage as we talked about and the Select plans we just reviewed so you may be eligible to enroll in the voluntary supplemental benefit plan these plans include a number of good coverages under life insurance accidental death and dismemberment short and long-term disability and the new coverage we're going to talk about critical illness eligibility for voluntary supplemental benefits is open to state employees except and we list the numbers of groups that are not currently participating as in member of lever trades and crafts or local 71 Teachers Retirement System on-call employees least employees emergency employees that are hired for natural disasters including emergency firefighters these groups would be excluded on this list employees of a participating political subdivision that are covered under the terms of the political subdivisions participation agreement may be eligible if your group is participating in SBS you may be eligible for voluntary supplemental benefits under voluntary supplemental benefits the light insurance component pays in a lump sum the premium is paid by a pre-tax payroll deduction available levels of the coverage include you can get levels at ten thousand fifty thousand a hundred two hundred and three hundred thousand now you notice for the two higher amounts we have an asterisk there there's a requirement of what's called a statement of health if you're going to be asking or requesting or wanting to enroll in one of these higher levels what a statement of health would state is that it's required for voluntary supplemental benefit life insurance amounts over a hundred thousand this is done as an industry standard it establishes proof good health and it protects the employers group insurance program from adverse risk so as as an example if you elect 200,000 or 300,000 you are covered at the hundred-thousand-dollar level until approved if however you are denied your coverage will still remain at a hundred thousand and you will be able to complete your statement of health online or by mail and you'll be dealing directly with metlife on this you would not be contacting the division there is also an accidental death and dismemberment benefit it pays for accidental death or loss of body part regardless of the level of voluntary supplemental life that you may carry accidental death maximum coverage is $100,000 and you can choose different family divisions or family options as an employee employee and family or potentially employee and spouse and we'll talk about we'll have a table here in a moment that kind of talks a little bit about the payouts if you choose this coverage this accidental death and dismemberment you must select at least ten thousand dollars in supplemental life this goes over a little bit this table shows a little on the family composition if depending on the type of a choice you might make you can if you chose employee spouse and children if the employee could be potentially a full benefit would pay out at a hundred thousand the spouse the full benefit amount would be forty thousand and it would be five thousand dollars for each child you can also see the other composition choices you have with employee and spouse or employee and children now the type of permanent loss if it's due to loss of life or both eyes or feet or any combination the percentage of the full benefit would be a hundred percent if the type of permanent loss would be one I a hand or foot the percentage of the full benefit would be fifty percent and if it's the thumb and index finger of the same hand the percentage of the benefit would be twenty-five percent now as I mentioned before critical illness is a new benefit this year will be effective the plan year 2017 starting in January this complements an employee's medical and disability income coverage it will provide a lump sum benefit to help pay for expenses such as uncovered travel for treatment possibly temporary housing won't being treated away from home or even airfare for a family member to travel with the employee now there are two different plans are available at 15,000 or thirty thousand dollar level each plan covers up to three times the initial benefit amount so as an example the thirty thousand dollar plan will pay up to ninety thousand dollars for reoccurrence we have a the next slide will be a table and we'll show how that works for you covered conditions include cancer heart attack stroke major organ transplants Alzheimer's disease kidney failure even coronary artery bypass grafts and there are 22 other conditions just make sure you check our plant document verify so the table below is going to illustrate an employee who elected an initial benefit of thirty thousand dollars and again there can have a total benefit amount potentially if three times or three hundred percent of the initial benefit amount more than 90,000 so let's kind of walk through a couple scenarios person has a heart attack first diagnosis it's verified by specialist initial payment would be thirty thousand dollars for some of the options we mentioned before well this still leaves and remaining 60,000 potentially for this person two years later the person has a second heart attack second diagnosis it's verified another 30 thousand dollars is paid out for the needs of this member three years later this person has kidney failure first diagnosis initial benefit again would pay out thirty thousand dollars so at this point the plan would have exhausted the payout however this person would have received 90 thousand dollars worth of benefit for critical illness issues that they had dealt with over the previous years now under critical illness claims are initiated through MetLife and a physician what we say in area of specialty statement will be required and this will be coordinated between the member and MetLife no pre-existing condition limitation for heart attack or stroke and the plan will even pay members fifty dollars for health screening if you have the $15,000 coverage and a hundred dollars with the 30 thousand dollar coverage and this coverage is portable again we'll talk briefly on this on this idea here in just a moment here's the information snoopy they're making sure we have our critical care number now we touched on and talked about portability a little bit beginning in 2017 the basic coverages select coverages voluntary supplemental benefit life and critical illness benefits will be portable so what this means portability ensures that you can continue coverage after terminating the employment relationship rates are based on your current age and differ from the rate you paid while employed MetLife will bill you monthly for your coverage and the option to make monthly payments by electronic funds transfer is available that life will work with you on that as well seasonal permanent employees will also have portability however when you return to work you must rejoin the active group plan now we're going to talk about a couple of different coverages we haven't mentioned so far as in short and long-term disability what we post here a couple things you might want to think about when considering this type of coverage one do you have enough coverage under the plan you're in so to start you must be vested to apply for pers non-occupational disability and that would be for pers tier 1 2 and 3 g.r for does not have a non-occupational disability option the pers coverage you may have may be insufficient voluntary long-term disability pays 50 percent or seventy percent of your salary depending on the plan you choose and there's another thing to keep in mind Social Security pays only if you are vested and have worked in a covered employer in the last five years so for those of us who have paid into SBS for longer than that something to think about when you're looking at this coverage our definition of disability you must be unable to perform the material and substantial duties of the job and not be working in another occupation short term disability benefit it would pay sixty percent of salary or a maximum 577 weekly per month for 180 days and this is a couple years ago it was only 210 a week so this plan has been enhanced noticeably over the last couple of years the benefit would start on a thirty first day if all leave is exhausted and this is after the date you terminated due to the disability now under long-term disability again we talked about short distort our disability covering up to 180 days you see how the long term in the short term work together because the long term disability starts after 180 days of disability again you have two levels to choose from one plan plan B covers fifty percent of what your monthly base which was Plan C covers seventy percent of your monthly base so initially you must be totally disabled from your own occupation and after 24 months must be disabled from any occupation this plan will pay as long as disabled so if you are disabled prior to age 60 it will pay up to age 65 if you're disabled after age 60 it will pay from one to four years and here's the number for metlife disability things to think about when considering short-term or long-term disability and that's how other income other types of payments could affect your benefit so any other income that's defined as a disability or retirement benefit required by law is subtracted fr m the amount you would receive from disability some of these would include retirement benefits workers compensation even Social Security and we have a table right here and so we're going to kind of walk through a scenario for someone and this says since the person has four thousand dollar they have a salary or four thousand dollars that's their covered well the long-term disability plan they chose was see which would be seventy percent of salary okay the plan we paid 2800 well we have to stop here the person has a retirement benefit dollars that is subtracted out okay so at this point the long-term disability would pay 1300 well we now find out the person is a social security benefit of seven hundred dollars so then met the long-term disability would pay in this instance would be six hundred dollars long-term disability is a special note will pay a minimum of a hundred dollars a month so you may want to look at what the premiums would be for the coverage if you have a number of these other incomes and if that's beneficial for you everyone situation is different now there are some value-added options to the disability there's a work incentive benefit a rehabilitation benefit which would increase monthly benefits by up to ten percent when the claimant participates in an approved rehabilitation program there's a family care expense reimbursement it says reimbursement for the care of family members if the claimant works or participates in an approved rehabilitation program while disabled now there's some additional bed benefits if you're enrolled in voluntary supplemental benefits you will have access to face to face will preparation this offers you the advantage of face-to-face or by phone legal services to prepare will a living will or power of attorney if you prefer you can choose an out-of-network attorney with set fee reimbursement you also have the option of a face-to-face estate resolution service this provides probate services face to face or again by phone to the executor or administrator of your estate and the estate of your spouse these services include document preparation and completion of correspondence necessary to transfer a non probate assets this covers participating planned attorneys fees for consultation or just general questions now imputed income we had talked briefly about some of the coverages that were pre-tax some there were post tax if you elect $50,000 or greater life insurance volume you will be subject to what's called imputed income now these selections which combined with the new $10,000 basic life exceed the IRS $50,000 limit on employer paid and pre-tax live coverage the imputed income will be based on age and the IRS uniform premium tables have found on the IRS site the as you'll hear in almost any seminar we do we we really press on the beneficiaries and really strongly recommend that you make sure that any any plans you're in that you have your beneficiaries updated so some of the plans we talked about today if you're involved in some of the group live plants basic life travel accident select life if you decided to enroll in that under voluntary supplemental benefits if you sign up for one of those life insurance plans accidental death and dismemberment make sure that we have a current copy or a very recent copy of your beneficiary request now I'm going to go through a couple slides fairly quickly just to let you know that over the course of the next several weeks a month we're going to be sending a lot of information out to you to make sure we want to ever want to get a chance to sign up for or enroll and benefits if they would like so throughout the month you probably received letter already there's Facebook postings we're going to have presentations in Juneau and in Anchorage we're also recording as you can tell here recording presentations for both this and the health plan and as you see some of the other things we'll be doing as we go through the month there'll be final date reminders and again Facebook posts so we want to make sure that if you a know about these plans and some of the benefits and get a chance to enroll that they benefit you and your financial situation now a couple other things to think about under open enrollment members who do not enroll will be defaulted to the same benefits except dependent care assistance plan ends this year it will not be a benefit available starting in 2017 critical illness again a new benefit for us that the coverage must be enrolled if you want to choose that coverage and premiums for these benefit ease benefits recalculate for the current age and base wage now outside of open enrollment and actually when you're first hired members may change benefits only following what's called a qualified status change some of the more current ones that we work with someone gaining or losing of a dependent through birth adoption marriage divorce or death potentially dependent is no longer eligible or what we say they may age out the spouse begins or ends employment or begins extended leave without pay or you or your spouse change from full-time to part-time or vice versa we're going to walk you through a couple of the slides of what it's going to look like when you do enroll it's a very simple process this is a picture of our homepage so it's Alaska dot gov /d RV you know we'll have that here in just a moment for you or you can just Google retirement benefits state of Alaska you can get to it one of two ways on the left-hand side you'll see a large button that says my R&B or on the right hand side in smaller letters you'll see insurance enrollment if you click or get to it either way it's going to take you to the same place we have one button where you can touch here takes you to this next slide where it says login you'll go to this this slide which looks pretty simply similar as you probably signed up for your permanent fund as you go through this site with the same username it will take you to this side which is online benefit enrollment and then once you get there this looks like a busy page however you know the reason will be open enrollment you'll have a chance to default into coverage or members who even have multiple employers as you see on the right can select them there so a lot of good information on a condensed slide for you also as you go to confirm your request you will get a dialog box that's going to confirm you're eligible to participate so you'll see a little box now they'll say are you in a position that's ineligible in are you in tours are you an intern short term non firm so you would need to say yes or no or may make you aware at that point if you're eligible or not but you can't see the list of participating groups and those who are not early in the presentation the next steps if you're covered by Alaska care health you may want to watch we will have a recording on that presentation and we're doing a number of seminars there here is our homepage at Alaska gov /d RB and make sure you have your sign on information if you have trouble signing on you can see the email address that we can work with you or we have three phone numbers around the stage you can call to get help if you need to help long an end so make sure you review your current benefits and decide which of those options you want and make most sense for you and your family okay we thank you for your time today hope this information has been beneficial