Eligibility

• You must be an employee of a church or affiliated organization of the Synod of the Pacific, working twenty hours or more per week.
• Lay Employees (and their dependents) are eligible to participate in these programs after a sixty day waiting period.
• Ordained Clergy* may enroll immediately, coverage will begin the first day of the month following their date of hire.  However, if the date of hire is the first day of the month, coverage would begin immediately.
• Coverage must be provided by the employing organization, as part of its standard employee benefits package.
• Employing organizations must provide all employees with fair and equal coverage within each basic employment classification. Basic Employment Classifications are:

                  1.  Ordained Clergy

                  2.  Non-Ordained Exempt Staff

                              Christian Education Directors

                              Business Managers, etc.

                  3.  Non-Exempt Staff

                              Clerical Staff

                              Custodians, etc.

• Employing organizations agree to pay at least the member portion of premiums.
• Dependent coverage may be paid by plan members through pretax payroll deduction.