Active New Hire Full-Time Employee

We strongly encourage you to log in to your Employee Portal and review your benefits to ensure you’ve selected the plans that best fits your needs. We are here to support, guide and assist you with your enrollment: therefore, we are providing telephonic and virtual enrollment assistance with a Benefits Representative.

Visit ww.MDCPSOE.com to schedule an appointment with a Benefits Representative and to select what type of enrollment assistance you would like or you can call (866) 877-2778, Monday – Friday, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. to schedule your appointment.

For additional information, please contact the hotline number at (305) 995-2777, Monday – Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., ET, or (305) 995-1799, Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., ET.

What You Need to Know:

If you do not make an open enrollment election, the following will occur:

• Your current healthcare and/or flexible benefits coverage and your dependent(s) coverage will continue. There are no plan design changes to the benefits being offered.
• If you are currently opting out of healthcare, this election will continue. You will be required to complete the Declination of Healthcare Coverage Affidavit and submit it with proof of other group or state-funded healthcare to the Office of Risk and Benefits Management. If you do not provide this required documentation, you will be automatically assigned to the Cigna SureFit (employee only) healthcare plan retroactively to the beginning of the plan year. The School Board will collect the medical opt out money you’ve received retroactively via payroll.
• If you experience a change in salary band, as a result of last year’s negotiations, you may have an increase in both employee and dependent healthcare deductions.
• If you are being deducted the spouse/domestic partner annual surcharge, the deductions will continue. However, we ask that you review your response in the Surcharge Affidavit to confirm their medical coverage status has not changed.

Please note, new hires must remain enrolled in the healthcare option elected for 12-months, and the balance of the plan year in which the 12-months are satisfied.

For additional information, please contact the hotline number at (305) 995-2777, Monday – Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., ET, or (305) 995-1799, Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., ET.

The enrollment application will be available during the open enrollment period 24 hours/ 7 days a week. You must use Google Chrome web browser for the online enrollment application.

Additional Information

• Your salary band and the Board Contribution to your and your dependents’ healthcare cost.
• Board-paid life insurance amount.
• Disability benefit, which is a percentage of your benefit base salary.
• Benefits Salaries being used for the current Open Enrollment will be employee’s annual salary as of June 30th.

• Full-time benefits eligible employees will continue to be provided Board-paid Standard Short-Term Disability (STD) coverage.
• The School Board provides a Term Life & Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) program with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for all full-time employees. The coverage amount is either one or two times your annual base salary rounded up to the next $1,000.00. Administrators and Confidential Exempt Personnel received two times the annual base salary.  All other employees receive one times their annual base salary. The minimum benefit for employees represented by AFSCME is $10,000. Additional life insurance may be purchased through payroll deductions to bring maximum benefits to an additional, one times the amount provided by the School Board. Employees are eligible to increase the life insurance amount to a maximum of five times the annual base salary after the first year of participation in the optional life program. Evidence of Insurability will be required for any increases in coverage. To find out more about Board-paid Term Life and AD&D, contact the MetLife representative at 305.992.7029.

Online Enrollment