When life happens you often have options. When one of the following events(Qualified Status Change (QSC)) happen, you have the opportunity to make some changes to your benefits to ensure that your benefits fit your needs best. When you have a QSC event, it is important to report these events immediately (maybe even in advance) as the window for making changes is limited! Except where noted, you have 31 days to notify HR of these events and any changes you would like to make as a result.
Click on the events below to learn more about the rules surrounding them as QSC events.
- Marriage, Divorce and Domestic Partners
- Children – All things about covering dependent children
- Gain or loss of other coverage
- Benefits while on Leave of Absence
- Changes in employment status such as below 0.5 FTE to 0.5 FTE or more, full time to part time or moving between bargaining units
When you realize that you need to make a change in your benefits and you have a QSC event, please fill out a Mid-Year Change Form and return to HR at the District Office as soon as possible, ensuring that you do so before the deadline.
For a Mid-Year Change Form or other benefits forms, please visit: https://www.4j.lane.edu/hr/benefits/faqs-forms-and-publications/
To determine how your new or changed enrollments may change your rates, please visit our rates page.
Why the Period for Making Changes is Limited
Most of the benefits plans offered are paid with pre-tax dollars. In exchange for that tax advantage, you legally cannot enroll in, cancel, or make changes to your medical, dental, vision, or flexible spending account plans outside the annual Open Enrollment period, unless you experience one of the qualifying events described above.
Eugene School District 4J QSC policy follows OEBB’s QSC Matrix. You may review the matrix here.
