On Wednesday TWU, Local 514 Benefits Committee reported out that the medical preferred provider for Oklahoma will change to United Health Care. The only increases in cost will be to the Values Plus Plan and to Community Care HMO. The Pacificare of Oklahoma HMO will not be offered as an option for the 2012 plan year. The Prescription Drug Plan under the value and value plus plans will require participants to do mail order for all maintenance drugs if filled at retail 3 times. The spouse and dependent children voluntary term life insurance premiums will slightly decrease. The other optional AA offered insurances will remain the same with the same premiums.
Now, there are several new insurance benefits that will be offered through the TWU. There will also be an open enrollment for some TWU benefits that are already in place. First, there are 5 brand new insurance policies that have some form of guaranteed issue which are: Lincoln Term Life, Lincoln Accident Insurances, Aflac Critical Illness, Aflac Whole Life, and Humana Gap Insurance. One thing to note about these new insurances is that they are stackable, meaning that even though you have medical insurance you can collect the accident or illness and the gap insurance on the same occurrence. Another note is if you currently have the TWU term life with USLife you will automatically be rolled over to Lincoln Term Life.
The TWU also has open enrollment with Standard Short Term Disability and Hartford Long Term Disability. These are existing policies in place. Be aware that you cannot collect MetLife Short Term Disability and Standard Short Term Disability at the same time and you must use all of your sick time prior to collecting short term disability.
With the AA October open enrollment and all of the TWU benefits being offered, your local has invited some licensed insurance counselors to come to Tulsa to help explain and choose the right insurance package for you and your specific situation. Univers is the company the counselors are employed by. The Univers counselors are paid hourly, W2 employees and not paid commission for sales. It is highly recommended that you visit with an insurance counselor while they are available, from September 19, 2011 through October 14, 2011. For those who can not meet personally with a counselor you can call one at 888-894-7595. The time and location of the insurance counselors are typically 7am to 9pm and will be located in Hanger 6 training room 2, The TWU Grievance Office and the TWU International Bus located around Hanger 3 and 4. You can also call the Local Union Hall at 918-437-4300 and set-up an appointment at the hall so that spouses may meet with the counselors as well. For the most updated and correct information check our web site at TWU514.org and facebook page at TWU514.
One last thing you must do! Print out the final selection of all of your selected benefits for your records!!! When you do your AA open enrollment print that out and keep for your records!!!
Thank you Benefits Committee D’Ann Johnson 918-384-9760 Malinda Hamm 918-576-1717 Bruce Sexton 918-619-2975