Dear Colleagues,
The enrollment period is open at PSU for state-subsidized health care for adjuncts who:
teach more than half time (.5FTE) by combining work across multiple Oregon public colleges and universities or
average above .5FTE by teaching in summer term as well as the academic year at PSU
The eligibility enrollment period is October 1 through 31. Once you have gone through the initial eligibility application process, you will be provided guidance to choose which insurance plan you want to enroll in starting in November.
You should have received an email last week from PSU Benefits with a table listing your FTE for the last year to help you determine eligibility. Some people have received incomplete or incorrect information, so please follow up with HR if you believe you should qualify but the information provided to you doesn’t back that up.
The emails from PSU HR about adjunct health care confused some of our members, as it described the eligibility criteria incorrectly and had a broken link that discouraged some people from applying.
If you are unsure whether you may qualify please reach out to HR benefits at benefits [at] pdx.edu and feel free to CC our union by including Ariana Jacob psufa.bargaining [at] gmail.com.
To begin your health insurance eligibility application, follow the link on this page: https://www.pdx.edu/human-resources/sb-551-benefits-part-time-faculty under the Determining Eligibility heading. If that gives you trouble, email benefits [at] pdx.edu .
We also want to acknowledge that the current eligibility criteria to qualify for this health care is too complicated and sets too high of a threshold for enrollment. PSUFA is working with legislators to improve the law and make it more accessible. This process is slow, unfortunately.
Your union,
PSUFA