Eligibility Requirements:

 

The eligibility requirements for the Hospital Select II, 10 and 20 Year Level Term Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Cancer Plus (Critical Illness) Insurance and Accident Advance Insurance through Transamerica Employee Benefits are as follows:

 

• You must be an active member of the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association to apply for coverage.

• You must be actively at work and able to perform all normal duties of your job.

• If you are a new NRLCA member, there is a 45 day waiting period before a new leave replacement carrier is eligible for the Plan.

• After the 45-day waiting period, new NRLCA members have 30 days to elect coverage in the Plan or must wait until the next open enrollment period.

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During open enrollment - the 45 day waiting period is being waived. Please see policy specifics for dependent eligibility, if a dependent is currently disabled.

 

Leave Replacement Designation Codes

 

Call NRLCA membership at 703-684-5545 if you do not know.

 

A member is one of the following; RCR, RCA or #73

 

72/0 RCA

Substitute rural carrier serving on a vacant route or in the absence of a regular carrier on extended leave in excess of 90 days.

 

73/0 RCA

Substitute rural carrier. Entered on duty prior to July 21, 1981.

 

74/0 RCA

Rural carrier associate serving a vacant route or in the absence of a regular rural carrier on extended leave in excess of 90 days.

 

75/0 RCR

Rural carrier relief. Entered on duty between July 21, 1981 and November 12, 1986 without time limitations or between November 12, 1986, and March 30, 1996, with a time limitation and not hired from a register.

 

77/0 eligible

Auxiliary carrier. Hired prior to 1981 to serve an auxiliary route without time limitation.

 

78/0 RCA

Rural carrier associate. Employees hired from a register or reassigned from rural carrier relief or auxiliary carrier position on or after April 11, 1987 without time limitation.

 

79/0 RCA

Rural carrier associate assigned to an auxiliary route.