Employees who are eligible for Dental benefit coverage:

• Full-time employees who work at least 30 hours or more per week and
• Paid on a regular, monthly basis

Eligible dependents may also be added to your dental coverage policy. Dependents may only be enrolled in a plan where the employee is the primary policy holder.

Eligible dependents include: 

• Your legal spouse
• Your natural child, a stepchild, a legally adopted child, a child placed with you for adoption, or a child for whom you or your spouse has court-appointed guardianship or custody. The child must be:
  1. under the age of twenty-six (26) if financially dependent on you for support; or
  2. medically certified as disabled due to mental handicap or retardation or physical handicap and financially dependent upon you for support, regardless of age. 

The Annual Open Enrollment effective date for dental contract changes is September 1st. If there are changes in the contract, including deductible differences, this change is effective September 1st.

• The benefit calendar year for dental coverage is from January 1st to December 31^st.

Employees must notify the HR Benefits Office within 30 days when a dependent is eligible or no longer qualifies for coverage. 

• Coverage will terminate on the last day of the month if terminating.
• Coverage becomes effective on the first of the month, following the qualifying change in status.
• Dependent/Spouse coverage is optional. Enrollment is not automatic.