Employees enrolled in the College's Medical, Dental, and EAP plans have survivors' benefits. If an employee dies while in an active employment status, his/her survivors will receive the following benefits:
Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, and Employee Assistance Program: Such benefits will continue for 60 days following the date of death with all premiums paid by the College.
Following the initial 60 days, accumulated sick leave reserve will be converted to insured days (weekends and the holidays listed in the employee handbook will not count). The College will pay 100 percent of the premium to continue the medical, dental, and EAP benefits for each insured day for the employee and eligible dependents until the end of the month in which the last insurance day is used.
Following the sick leave reserve conversion as delineated in the CTO/SLR section, the benefits may be continued for the balance of one year from the date of death if the survivor pays 75 percent of the full internal premium on a monthly basis.
The benefits may continue past one year, until eligibility ends, if the survivor pays on a monthly basis 100 percent of the full internal premium. For surviving children, eligibility is the same as in the active plan. For surviving spouses/domestic partners/civil union partners, eligibility ends when the spouse/ domestic partner/civil union partner becomes eligible for another plan or for Medicare.
MiddCard Privileges: A surviving spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner receives full faculty/staff MiddCard privileges for one year. If no spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner survives, dependent children will receive Snow Bowl and Golf Course discounts for one year instead of MiddCard privileges.
Accrued CTO: Survivors of full-time staff have the option of converting accrued CTO time to cash or insurance benefits.
Faculty Survivor Insurance Continuation: Survivors of faculty members receive a week of insurance continuation for each academic year in which a full course load was carried. (Prorations are made and all conflicts resolved by the dean of the faculty and the director of Human Resources.)
Comprehensive Fee Credit and Tuition Cash Grant Scholarship: If, at the time of his/her death, a tenured faculty or staff employee has met the eligibility requirement for the comprehensive fee credit and/or the tuition cash grant scholarship educational benefits, the dependent children will retain such benefits until age 25.
Advantage, Life Insurance, and Retirement Plans: All benefits under these plans will be settled with the survivors in accordance with the provisions of the plans and beneficiary designations.