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Washington College offers a comprehensive benefit package for full time and part time benefit eligible employees; including health, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family, group life AD+D and LTD coverage, optional life insurance, retirement plan, generous leave time, and the tuition assistance programs. These benefits not only enhance your financial security and well-being, they also add significantly to your total compensation.

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ABOUT YOUR BENEFITS

Learn more about Washington College’s comprehensive benefits package in the Employee Benefits Booklet (July 2012-June 2013).

ACCESSING YOUR BENEFITS

All forms and detailed benefits summaries for medical, dental, vision, life insurance and flexible spending accounts can be found on the Employee Benefits Portal HRConnection. 

Click here for instructions on accessing the employee portal.

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

SimplyEngaged Wellness Program

  • Program Overview

    We want to help our employees stay healthy. That is why it is our great pleasure to announce a special program that will help you take control of your health and well-being and be rewarded for it!

    With support from UnitedHealthcare, the College is making a commitment to offer an exciting health and wellness program that will allow you to earn valuable gift cards valid at over hundreds of retailers when you and your covered spouse/domestic partner complete certain wellness activities.

    It’s easy to get started..

    1. Attend the Know Your Numbers health screening event (This event has passed)

    2. Complete a confidential online Health Assessment at myuhc.com and receive immediate feedback on your personal health results. In addition, your responses are used to help create a personalized online experience specifically for you.

    3. Enroll in an online or telephone-based health coaching program that focuses on losing weight, quitting smoking, exercising

    more, relieving stress, and much more.

    4. Earn rewards for taking steps to understand and improve your health and well-being. 

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  • Redeem Your Health and Wellness Gift Cards

    Click each item to view the PDF

     

    SimplyEngaged Gift Card Overview

     

    Available Retailers and Gift Card Options

Innovative Health Services

  • Instructions for Obtaining Your PIN

    New consumer financial protections under federal law are effective on April 1, 2013, which affect the use of debit cards and prepaid cards. The protections are intended to help control the cost of certain financial transactions and help to prevent fraud and theft.

    You will now have a unique Personal Identification Number (“PIN”) associated with your current benefit card(s). You may be prompted by some merchants to enter this 4-digit number at the point-of-sale when purchasing eligible items (not all merchants have made the changes necessary for PIN use, as of this date).

    For security reasons, Innovative Health Services does not have access to your PIN. Your PIN is not included with this letter.

    It is important to note that there is no need for you to obtain a new Benefit Card at this time. Your PIN will work with your current card. There will be no changes to your benefit plan(s), and you can continue to purchase eligible items at the same merchants you use now for your FSA and/or HRA needs.

    To obtain your PIN, you must use the secure internet website that you use to access your account activity, www.wealthcareadmin.com/Participants. Below you will find the instructions for accessing your PIN. If you have not accessed this website before you will need to create a new account. 

    Attachments:

    -PIN Letter to Participants

    -Instructions for creating your online HSA account

    ** Employer ID: IHSWASHCOLL

    -Instructions for retrieving your PIN number

    -PIN FAQs

  • Flexible Spending Accounts

    There are two kinds of Flexible Spending Accounts; Health Care FSA and Dependant Care FSA. If you participate in the Health Care FSA, your pre-tax dollars can be used to pay for medical care services and supplies. If you participate in the Dependent Care FSA, your pre-tax dollars can be used to pay for care for your children under age 13 (and disabled dependents of any age) while you work. For details regarding flexible spending accounts and forms, see the Employee Benefits Portal  HRConnection.

SunLife Group Life & LTD/AD&D

  • Sunlife Optional Life Insurance

    When it comes to protecting the financial security of you and your family, nothing is more important than planning ahead. Part of any personal financial plan should include adequate life insurance coverage that provides protection against financial hardship in the event of an unexpected death. Even if you already have a life insurance policy, it’s important to ask yourself—does it provide the protection you need to cover all of your financial responsibilities?

    Optional Life Insurance is yearly renewable group term life insurance that covers you for as long as you remain an eligible employee and continue to pay your premium. Because Optional Life is term life insurance, it does not build any cash value for you to borrow against or receive upon policy cancellation. Optional Life Insurance provides added financial protection at an affordable price. For a few dollars each pay, you can ensure your family’s financial security in the event of an unexpected death.

     

    Optional Life Insurance Info Sheet

  • Life, Sunlife AD&D and Long-Term Disability Insurance

    Washington College provides two programs:

    1) Group life, accidental death and dismemberment insurance

    2) Long-term disability insurance for eligible employees.

    Life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment and long-term disability are effective the first of the month after the employee becomes eligible, provided the employee is actively at work and has officially enrolled. If the employee is not actively at work on the date the insurance would normally start, the insurance will not become effective until the first of the month after the employee is actively at work.

     

Retirement Programs

  • About TIAA CREF

    Washington College offers retirement programs through TIAA-CREF. TIAA-CREF may be contacted at (800) 842-2776 or on the Web at www.tiaa-cref.org

  • TIAA CREF Retirement Elections and Online Enrollment

    To elect or change your retirement contributions complete the Retirement Elections Form and return it to the Office of Human Resources.

    New participants will also need to enroll in a TIAA CREF retirement plan online.

    Visit the TIAA CREF website and click Enroll Online, then Register with TIAA CREF. 

    You will be required to provide your Social Security number, birth date and the corresponding Washington College access code found in the table below.

     

    RETIREMENT PLAN TYPE

    ACCESS CODE

    403(b) Defined Contribution Plan

    104628

    Group Supplemental Plan

    104629

    457b Plan

    403160

  • Regular Retirement Account (RRA)

    Washington College offers the TIAA-CREF retirement plan to all full-time and part-time benefit eligible employees. Part-time regular employees who work over 1,000 hours per year are eligible to participate in the retirement plan after one year of employment. This is a defined contribution plan through which the College makes contributions to the employee’s account. The employee may also make pre-tax contributions to their retirement account on a tax-deferred basis subject to the rules governing tax-deferred annuities. The contributions are immediately 100% vested and the employee has full control of how the contributions are invested in the various investment options TIAA-CREF offers. A full description of the investment options is provided upon eligibility.

  • Supplemental Retirement Account (SRA)

    An additional way to save for retirement is through the Supplemental Retirement Account offered through TIAA-CREF. The College does not contribute to this account, but you determine how much you can afford to save each month. To meet your goals and comfort level, you choose how to allocate your pre-tax contributions from a wide range of investment options.

    TIAA-CREF issues a quarterly statement illustrating both employee and employer contributions and the performance of your investments.

Additional Benefit Programs

Tuition Programs

Employee Assistance Programs

 

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