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Health BeneFits Information


You are automatically enrolled in the Equitable Life Insurance plan if you are contracted to work for more than 0.3 time and longer than 5 months. If you have an "indefinite" term contract, you will automatically be enrolled upon the first day of your 6th month of employment.

Premium (effective September 2024)
$291.09 per month
$160.09 covered by 7 Oaks School Division (55%)
$131.00 of which is covered by you (pre-tax). (45%)


Benefits:
- Extended Health Care (80%; $850 per year, per practitioner for paramedical)
- Vision (100% up to $400 every 24 months)
- Dental (80% for basic services; 50% for major services up to a maximum of $1500 per year)
- Orthodontic (50% up to a lifetime maximum of $2500)

              Please see the information package in your school for more details
                                  or call PWI Insurance at 1-800-265-2178.


Drug Claiming Information

Your benefit plan covers 90% of drug cost at Costco and 80% at other pharmacies with a $6.00 dispensing fee cap.
Members are encouraged to shop at the lower cost pharmacies to maximize their reimbursement. 
For members who may be pondering moving their prescriptions to the Preferred Pharmacy Program (at Costco), the following information about dispensing fees was provided by PWI in December 2024: 

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Claim Forms
Smartphone Equitable Life EZClaim
Dental
Health & Vision
Drug Claims (Emergis)
Application for Direct Deposit
Application for Dependants over 21
Documents
Benefits at a Glance
Equitable Life Policy Booklet (Jan. 1, 2022)
Short Term Disability Plan Document (May 1, 2021)
Long Term Disability Plan Document (May 1, 2021)
Group Life Insurance Plan
Group Life Insurance Rates (Oct. 2021)
Group Life Insurance Newsletter (Sept. 2021)
Links
            Equitable Life of Canada                       Teachers' Retirement Allowance Fund

 MTS Short Term Disability Benefits Plan        MTS Long Term Disability Benefits Plan 

                                                    MTS HumanaCare                        
Memos
Travel Assist Coverage Update (Oct. 2021)
Costco Preferred Pharmacy Program
Coverage for Adult Students (Dependants)
Travel Assist Brochure
Travel Outside Manitoba

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