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Eligibility



Eligible Employees

You may enroll in the beneits program if you are a regular full-time
employee who is actively working an average of 32 hours per week.

Eligible Dependents

As you become eligible for beneits, so do your eligible dependents. In
general, eligible dependents include your legal spouse and children up to

age 26. Children may include natural, adopted, step-children, or children
obtained through court-appointed legal guardianship, or disabled children
over age 26.

If you are adding a dependent, please provide your dependent veriication
documents within 31 days of your beneits effective date. For more
information, please see the Dependent Veriication link on the Human
Resources webpage. For your convenience, your documents may be

scanned and emailed to beneits@slu.edu or faxed to 314.977.1785.

Working Spouse Eligibility

Full-time working spouses who have access to medical coverage through
their employer are not eligible for SLU’s medical plan. Spouses are eligible

for coverage on SLU’s medical plan if they:

X Are not employed, or are self employed
X Are not eligible for coverage through their employer
X Are not offered qualifying coverage through their employer which
includes preventive care, major medical, and prescription drug
beneits with their employer contributing at least 50% of the premium
for single coverage

X Are on Medicare and do not have access to an employer program
If one of the above scenarios applies, your spouse can enroll in SLU’s
medical plan upon completion of the spousal healthcare afidavit.
Completed afidavits can be sent to beneits@slu.edu or faxed to

314.977.1785. This eligibility deinition only applies to the medical plan. Employees who wish to enroll their
All spouses are eligible for the dental, vision, life, and accident plans. This spouse on their SLU insurance will be
provision does not affect the deinition of an eligible child. required to annually complete and
submit a spousal healthcare afidavit
to the SLU Beneits Ofice.


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