Eligibility

If you are a active, full-time employee working at least 30 hours per week, you and your eligible dependents may participate in Pace Industries’ benefits program. Your eligible dependents include:

• Legally married spouse or domestic partner (as defined by state law below)
  

  18 years of age or older and unmarried Not related by blood in any manner that would prohibit legal marriage Assumed mutual obligations for the welfare and support of each other Share a common residence and living together as a couple in the same household Each other’s sole domestic partner Able to provide verification of our joint responsibility, if requested

• A natural child, step-child, adopted child, legal guardianship or qualified medical child support order of the employee, spouse or domestic partner up to age 26.
• A child over the age of 26 that has a severe physical or mental condition that makes them indefinitely dependent on you for primary support. You will have to provide documentation of tax records, birth certificate, or documentation of your child’s disability.

As an eligible employee, you may enroll at the following times:

• As a new hire, you may participate in the company’s benefits program on the first day of the month after 30 days of employment.
• Each year during open enrollment.
• Within 30 days of a qualifying event as defined by the IRS (see Changes To Enrollment below).

Pace Industries offers a Section 125 Pre-Tax Plan, meaning that certain coverages are deducted from your paycheck on a pre-tax basis. The IRS stipulates that when you elect to have your deductions taken out with pre-tax dollars, you also agree to remain in the benefit plan of your selection for one full year, unless you experience a change in family status. Examples of changes in family status include:

• Marriage
• Divorce
• Birth/Adoption of a child
• Death of a spouse/child
• Spouse loses his/her job or coverage

You must notify Human Resources in writing within 30 days of the status change and provide appropriate documentation.

Our benefit plans are effective July 1st through June 30th of each year. There is an annual open enrollment period each year, during which you can make new benefit elections for the following July 1st effective date. Once you make your benefit elections, you cannot change them during the year unless you experience a qualifying event as defined by the IRS. Examples include, but are not limited to the following:

• Marriage, divorce, legal separation or annulment
• Birth or adoption of a child
• A qualified medical child support order
• Death of a spouse or child
• A change in your dependent’s eligibility status

Coverage for a new dependent is not automatic. If you experience a qualifying event, you have 30 days to update your coverage. You may login to Workday to update your dependent information as needed. If you do not update your coverage within 30 days from the qualifying event, you must wait until the next annual open enrollment period to update your coverage.