COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS Board of Trustees
Policy No. 323
Administrative Regulation No. 323.02
MEDICAL BENEF
The Medical Benefit provisions in this Administrative Regulation are
available to the surviving spouse or domestic partner of an administrative,
classified management, or confidential employees of
the District with employment start dates prior to
The District will continue, at the District cost, to provide medical
benefits to the surviving spouse or domestic partner and dependent children,
not to exceed 5 years, after which period the surviving spouse may remain in
the District program at his/her own cost, in accordance with the following
limitations:
Limitations:
A. The medical benefit shall be consistent with those being received by
current employees and their dependents including any expansion of benefit under
the basic benefit program that is in existence.
B. The surviving spouse or domestic partner and their dependents will not be
eligible to receive new fringe benefit programs or plans which may accrue to
then current employees who are on active employment status with the District at
the time the new benefit goes into effect which were not an expansion of the
basic benefit program in effect at the time of death.
C. This benefit would not be provided if comparable coverage were available to
the surviving spouse or upon remarriage.
D. If Medicare or CHAMPIS is available to the surviving spouse or domestic
partner, he/she may remain in our medical plan at his/her own cost.
E. The spouse or domestic partner and other dependents shall continue to
receive these benefits until the spouse reaches the age of 65, but not longer
than 5 years after the employee would have attained the age of 65.
F. Dependents other than the spouse or domestic partner shall have no rights of
their own for benefits under this program but only as the spouse or domestic
partner qualifies for such benefits.
G. For purposes of this program, the dependents covered by this plan means only
natural children and legally adopted children.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
A. Must have been a full-time employee for the 10 years immediately prior to
death.
B. Sabbatical leave or teacher exchange will count as eligible time within the
10-year period if accepted and used within the first 5 years of the 10-year
period.
C. Leave without pay does not count toward part of the 10-year service
requirement but does not constitute a break in the continuity of the 10-year
requirement.
D. Paid sick leave counts toward the satisfaction of the 10-year requirement.
E. Extended sick leave (beyond the paid sick leave time) does not count toward
a part of the 10-year service requirement but does not constitute a break in
the continuity of the 10-year requirement.
Approved:
Revised: