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Benefits Eligibility
Section
Index
Overview/Purpose Ending Date for Funding or Visa Purposes
BELIs and Health & Welfare Benefits Multiple Concurrent Appointments
  Initial Eligibility: New or Current Employees Multiple Consecutive Appointments
  Initial Eligibility: Rehired Employees Appointment Extended
  Continued Eligibility Transer to Positions "Ineligible for Benefits"
  Special Situations: Rehired Retirees Unit 18 (Lecturers) Appointment Averaging
  Special Situations: Contract Employees Status Qualifier Codes
  Special Situations: Attaining 1000 Hours Out of Compliance BELIs
  Special Situations: Unit 18 (Lecturers) BELI Codes & Requirements
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Eligibility Requirements

Initial Eligibility for New or Current Employees

In order to become initially eligible for benefits, the newly hired or current employee’s appointment is evaluated using the following three factors: percentage, duration, and appointment type. All three factors are entered into the payroll system upon hire. Initial and continuing eligibility for a particular BELI code is defined in the BELI Codes and Requirements chart.

The “appointment type code” is resident in the payroll system and is defined as follows:

Appt. Type 1: Contract
Appt. Type 2: Regular/Career
Appt. Type 3: Limited
Appt. Type 4: Casual/Restricted
Appt. Type 5: Academic
Appt. Type 6: Per Diem
Appt. Type 7: Partial Year/Career
Appt. Type 8: Floater

Some appointment types (Casual/Restricted and Per Diem) are never eligible for benefits. Appointments of any type in which employees are paid solely on a stipend, "by agreement", or are appointed without salary are also not benefits eligible appointments. In addition, academic titles reserved for students are not benefits eligible.