Active employees who are eligible to participate in the Flexible Benefits Program should continue all insurance options in which they have enrolled by paying the required after-tax premium during a period of "approved leave of absence without pay" for a period of up to twelve (12) months.
Each agency is responsible for informing an employee on LWOP the appropriate insurance premium amounts and health care spending account contributions in order to maintain coverage for options selected by the employee. When an employee is approved for LWOP, the agency may deduct up to three (3) additional months of insurance premiums and health care spending account contributions from the employee's pay prior to the leave of absence, unless the absence occurs during an open enrollment period or across plan years.
If the employee fails to make personal premium payments while on approved LWOP and returns to work within the same Plan Year, the agency should collect all premiums and health care spending account contributions from the employees salary for continuous coverage during the period of out-of-pay status.
NOTE: Personal payments to the Child (Dependent) Care Spending Account are not allowed while on LWOP.
When an employee is in a LWOP status which overlaps an Open Enrollment period and does not return to work July 1, the employee is to continue the benefits enrolled in the previous Plan Year in which (s)he was last physically at work. Please call the Flexible Benefits Program at (404) 656-2730 or 1-888-968-0490 (outside the Atlanta calling area) for more information.
Once the employee returns to work, (s)he is to be provided a thirty-one (31) day enrollment period to update their benefit choices. The Open Enrollment Option Statement provided upon the return to work is to include the employee's Benefit Salary and age as of April 1 of that year.
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