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Long-Term Care Insurance Enrollment Begins January 25th!

New Employee Benefit Offering Long-Term Care Insurance

Long-Term Care Insurance can be affordable.

SAMPLE PREMIUMS*
 

 

 

AGE

 $110 per day benefit

$80,300 Pool of Dollars | 2 Year Benefit Deferred

 $110 per day benefit

$80,300 Pool of Dollars | 2 Year Benefit Tailored BIO
Monthly Premium Monthly Premium
53 $76.34 $154.97
*These sample premiums are monthly premiums for a single individual and are subject to change without notice. Your plan rate may be different depending on your plan specifics. Premiums based upon Transamerica TransCare II 2016 Rates in Pennsylvania

Attend a workshop. Explore your options.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Date Location Times
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Howard Gittis Student Center, Room 220 12:30 PM or 1:30 PM
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 Howard Gittis Student Center, Room 220 12:00 PM or 1:00 PM
Thursday, January 24, 2019 Howard Gittis Student Center, Room 223 12:30 PM or 1:30 PM

Workshops are open to all, please call 215.901.7905 or CLICK HERE to ensure a seat.

Not able to RSVP? Last minute participants are welcome!

Unisex Rates1 ● Spousal Discounts up to 30% ● Only 10 Health Questions for Full-time Employees, ages 18 – 652

Full-time Employees ages 66 – 79 are eligible to apply with Full Underwriting 
Call 215.901.7905 or Click Here

to RSVP for an on-campus workshop!

Unisex rates available to employees and family members; most individual LTCi offerings employ gender based pricing, where rates for

females are more expensive.

2Full-Time employees are those working 30+ hours per week. All spouses and family members will undergo full health screening

 

TAUP offers Long Term Care Insurance

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The Temple Association of University Professionals (TAUP) is excited to introduce a Long-Term Care insurance [LTCi] program as a benefit for our dues-paying members, underwritten by Transamerica Life Insurance Company.  Since Temple’s administration has for some years not offered this benefit and since these costs are not covered by health insurance, disability insurance or under Medicare, TAUP has decided to make this insurance benefit available to both full-time and adjunct dues-paying members on a voluntary, participant-paid basis, for a limited time only.

 

LTCi pays for the expenses associated with needing extended care at home or a stay in a Long-Term Care facility. The cost of Long-Term Care can vary based upon your location, the future costs of care and for how long care is needed.  An average stay in a Long-Term Care facility is almost 2.5 years1 and the current average cost of nursing home care in Pennsylvania  is $316/day2. Through this special offering at TAUP, you can design a Long-Term Care insurance plan that fits your unique needs and budget.

 

There are additional advantages to you under this program:

  1. Unisex Pricing is available. Most individual LTCi offerings employ gender-based pricing, where rates for women are more expensive than for males.
  2. Simplified Issue Underwriting – active employees ages 18 – 65 working at least 30 hours per week need only answer 10 Simplified Issue Health Questions.
  3. Your spouse/domestic partner, family members & extended family are also eligible to participate in the program.
  4. Couples Discounts of up to 30% are also available.

This voluntary benefit will be offered during the Long-Term Care insurance open enrollment period, which commences on January 14, 2019.  Prior to open enrollment, you can learn more during on-campus educational workshops. These will be held on Wednesday, December 5th at 12PM and 1PM in the Student Center Room 217B, and Thursday, December 6th at 12:30PM and 1:30PM in the Student Center Room 217D .  The location will be announced via email. Please CLICK HERE to RSVP today!

 

During the upcoming limited enrollment period, you will have the opportunity to meet with Harris Kivitz, our Long-Term Care Insurance Specialist, to design a plan that fits your budget. You can meet with Harris in person or online & over the phone.

 

Please note that LTCi does not make sense for everyone.  The policy-holder should have sufficient financial assets to protect in order to justify the premiums.  But even if you are not in a position to benefit from it directly, your family members may be. If you have questions about this, please contact Harris.

 

Once this enrollment period ends, the Simplified Issue Underwriting will only be available to new hires. Find out more about this new benefit and direct any questions to Harris Kivitz by calling 215.901.7905 or emailing kivitz1@verizon.net.

 

 

The TAUP Bargaining Survey is Out!

Please check your inbox for the TAUP Bargaining Survey and respond to it asap.  We are heading into negotiations in the spring, and we need to hear from everyone the Union represents in order to understand issues that are of concern. If the email with the link to the survey is not in the inbox where you normally receive TAUP communications, please check your spam folder. You can use the link below that’s appropriate to you, but you will need to sign in using the email address that we correspond with you on. If you have trouble accessing the survey, please contact the TAUP office taupaft@gmail.com

There is a link for each constituency TAUP represents:

Click here if you are tenured or a tenure-track faculty member

Click here if you are a Librarian

Click here if you are a non-tenure track full time faculty member
Click here if you are an adjunct faculty member
If you are an academic professional, please reach out to the TAUP office to speak directly with Steve Newman, TAUP president or Jennie Shanker, VP.