Benefits

You are eligible to participate in the Trust benefit plans if you are a regular full-time or part-time employee of the District as defined in collective bargaining agreements that require contributions to the Trust. Generally, temporary and seasonal employees are not eligible unless specified by a collective bargaining agreement.

Non-represented employees and employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement that does not require contributions to the Trust are not eligible to participate in the Trust.

The benefits options for which you are eligible are based on:

• Collective bargaining agreements and
• Your employment status — full-time or part-time.

As an eligible employee, you may enroll:

• Your legal spouse or your domestic partner;
• You and your spouse's or domestic partner's unmarried, dependent children under age 23 (effective February 1, 2011 the new dependent age is 26); and
• You and your spouse's or domestic partner's unmarried, physically or mentally disabled children of any age, providing their disability started before age 23 (effective February 1, 2011 the new dependent age is 26) and they are incapable of self-support and are primarily supported by you.

The child's disability must have started and been reported to the Trust Office before the child reaches the age of 23. (Note: effective February 1, 2011 the new dependent age is 26.)

The following are considered children for you and/or your domestic partner:

• Biological children;
• Adopted children, or children placed with you for adoption;
• Stepchildren if they live in your home;
• Children related to you by blood or marriage for whom you are the legal guardian (you will need to verify this by providing a court order showing legal guardianship);
• Children for whom there is a court order that meets applicable legal requirements, such as requiring you to maintain coverage for a child in the custody of a former spouse.

You may enroll your eligible dependents for all benefits for which you are eligible, except benefits specifically noted as employee-only coverage.

You must complete and return an Affidavit of Domestic Partnership to the Trust in order to cover a domestic partner and/or the partner's eligible dependents. A domestic partnership, for purposes of this plan, consists of two people of the same or opposite sex who:

• Have shared the same residence for at least six months before filing the affidavit and intend to continue doing so indefinitely;
• Have a close personal relationship with each other;
• Are not legally married to anyone else;
• Are each at least 18 years of age;
• Are not related by blood to a degree that would bar marriage in the state where they live;
• Were mentally competent to contract when the domestic partnership began;
• Are each other's sole domestic partner;
• Are jointly responsible for each other's welfare, including basic living expenses.

Please contact the Trust Office at (503) 454-3842 for more information.

Please contact the Trust Office at (503) 454-3842 for more information.

Eligibility for full year insurance coverage (October through September) shall be established as follows:

• A substitute must have worked the equivalent of seventy (70) full work days in the preceding school year.
• If a substitute accepts an offer to fill a temporary position, days worked in the temporary position shall count towards the qualifying requirement for insurance eligibility. If a substitute takes a temporary position, the District and the Trust will coordinate the substitute's enrollment between substitute insurance and temporary insurance.
• Substitutes must be fully available to work as a substitute teacher during the current school year and must enroll when eligible in the medical/dental plan.