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ABOUT
YOUR EMPLOYEE BENEFITS:
CommonHealth:
The state's
CommonHealth
program offers exciting
wellness programs for benefits-eligible state employees, families, and retirees in changing unhealthy behavior
and lifestyles. Longwood
University partners with CommonHealth to offer programs on campus. Notices
regarding campus CommonHealth seminars may be found at
HR Communications.
Flexible Reimbursement Accounts:
The Commonwealth of Virginia provides employees the option to enroll
in Dependent Care and Medical Reimbursement Flexible Spending Accounts.
Deductions for these employee benefits are on a pre-tax basis. For more
information regarding an overview, annual enrollment, premium conversion,
Sourcebooks, publications and forms,
click
here.
Health Care
Coverage: Statewide COVA Plan
The Statewide
COVA plan
is available to all Longwood employees. For
information regarding the healthcare plan, member handbooks, rates,
forms, eligibility rules and Health Benefits Q & A,
click
here.
Life Insurance
Life Insurance: Virginia
Retirement System - term
life; employee's salary rounded to nearest
thousand; doubled;
and doubled again in the event of an accident. Administered by Minnesota
Life.
Optional Life
Insurance
Optional Life Insurance - (VRS/Minnesota Life) An employees may
purchase up to four times your salary worth of life insurance
on yourself; half of what you purchase for yourself on your spouse;
and up
to $15,000 on children. Cost charts outlined in brochure are available from Human
Resources.
Premium Conversion
Premium
Conversion is a pre-tax deduction for health benefits premiums
available to all state employees. An employee must enroll in premium
conversion in order to take advantage of this benefit. Click
here for more information.
Retirement Plans
The Virginia Retirement system
administers a defined benefit plan, a group life insurance plan, a deferred
compensation plan and a cash match plan for Virginia's public sector employees,
as well as the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program for state
employees. They are headquartered in Richmond Virginia.
The following information is available
from VRS
About VRS
VRS Benefits
Defined Contribution Plans
Calculating Benefits
Retirement Planning
Publications and Forms
FAQs
ORPs and Comparing
Plans
Purchase of Prior
Service
Wartime Benefits
Memo to
Members
Tuition Waiver
Employees are allowed to take
one
class per semester free (one during summer session); comprehensive
fee is waived for dependents of employees. Click here for
a comprehensive fee waiver form.
Worker's Compensation
Longwood University Employees are eligible to receive
compensation under the Virginia Worker’s Compensation Act for injuries and/or
illnesses incurred in the course of official work-related duties. Compensation
may include payment of medical expenses and for time lost from work.
Compensability is determined by Managed Care Innovations, the Commonwealth’s
insurance carrier for worker’s compensation. For more information,
click here
to visit Managed Care Innovations online.
A Longwood Incident report should
be completed and signed by the employee and the employee’s supervisor, and
submitted to Human Resources within 24 hours when a work-related injury or illness occurs.
Click
here
for a Longwood University Accident Form.
Click here
for more information on Longwood
University's Return to Work Policy.
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