How will my monthly member required health and dental premiums change if I am assigned an eligible long-term assignment in addition to my less than 1.0 FTE permanent contract position?

August 29, 2024

OSSTF Teacher and Education Workers with long term assignments of 90 calendar days or longer are eligible for participation in the OSSTF ELHT benefit plan for the duration of their long-term assignment. Therefore, the Board will report a member’s eligible long-term assignment FTE in conjunction with their permanent contract FTE and the total FTE will be used to determine the level of member required premiums for health and/or dental benefit coverage.

For example, in a semester where a member is working in a 0.667 FTE contract position and is assigned a 0.333 FTE long term assignment of 90 calendar days or longer, the board will be instructed to report them as working 1.0 FTE. In this case they would only pay 6% of the required premium for health and/or dental coverage for the duration of the long-term assignment. When the long-term assignment ends the member can continue their health and/or dental benefit coverage, but the level of member required premium would be based on their remaining 0.667 FTE contract position and therefore be 33.3% +6%.

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