Department Overview
The Benefits Department is located on the first floor of the Administration Building
Employee Health
Open enrollment for benefits takes place in the spring for a July 1st effective date.
Outside of qualified life events (QLE,) this is the only time you can enroll/change benefits. If you do plan on changing or enrolling in benefits you must do so within 31 days of the event.
Voluntary Benefits:
Enrollment in voluntary benefits follows the same rules as enrollment in medical benefits. We are currently offering the following voluntary benefits:
Supplemental life insurance for employee, spouse and children
Long and short-term disability
Critical illness
Hospital indemnity
Accident
If you are resigning from RSD your benefits will terminate on the date of your resignation. If you are retiring into PSERS your benefits will terminate on the last day of the month of which you retire.
All open enrollment information is sent to your home approximately two weeks prior to
open enrollment. Please remember, RSD has a spousal rule which states that if your spouse is employed and is offerered benefits through their employer, they are required to elect those benefits as their primary coverage. Your spouse is not required to coverage children, however, they must elect benefits for themselves. Periodic audits are done through the benefits office to ensure compliance.
Employee Health Insurance Plans
Click on a link below to view a PDF copy of the corresponding document.
Employee Life insurance
Reading School District provides life insurance to all full-time employees. Please refer to your collective bargaining agreement/association agreement for details.
Federal Transparency in Coverage
This link leads to the machine-readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to access and analyze data more easily.
Flexible Spending
Below you will find important information regarding enrollment in the Flexible Spending Account and the Dependent Care Account. Please read carefully as this will be your only opportunity to enroll in these plans.