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2018 EMPLOYEE BENEFITS GUIDE
Technical Information
A Word About This Benefits Guide
This benefits guide describes the highlights of Columbia College is required to provide you certain
Columbia College’s benefits program and various protections administered by the Internal Revenue
coverage options. Your specific rights to benefits Service and the United States Department of
under the plan are governed solely, and in every Labor. This benefit plan is classified by the
respect, by the official plan documents, and not Department of Labor as a “welfare plan” and by
the information in this benefits guide. If there is the IRS as a “specific fringe benefit plan” under IRC
any discrepancy between the description of the s.6039 (D). The Plan is also governed by Internal
program elements as described in this document Revenue Code Section 125. Plan participants
or other materials you receive and the official are entitled to certain protections and directions
plan documents, the language in the official plan for recourse in the event of mistreatment by the
documents shall prevail as accurate. Please refer Plan, its sponsor, or administrator. Since these
to the plan-specific documents published by protections are essentially the same as federal
each of the respective carriers for detailed plan law, this Statement of Rights is published here
information. You should be aware that any and all for your information. The employer identification
elements of Columbia College’s benefits program number assigned to Columbia College is
may be modified in the future, at any time, to meet 43-0655867. You should refer to these numbers
legislative or compliance-related requirements, or in any correspondence about the plan.
otherwise as decided by Columbia College.
Plan Year
Columbia College’s benefits plan year is January
1st through December 31st. This Benefits Guide
outlines the benefits which apply to the plan year
unless otherwise noted.
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