{"id":26410,"date":"2025-05-21T12:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/?p=26410"},"modified":"2025-05-26T08:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:53:44","slug":"benefits-update-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/2025\/benefits-update-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits Update 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Benefits Update 2025\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University is proud to provide a comprehensive benefits program for its employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An important part of managing this program is the annual renewal of contracts with our insurers. At this time we review how the plans have been used and negotiate the best rates possible for the coming year. We have completed our analysis and discussions with Canada Life for the 2025\/2026 benefit year, which runs from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Premium rates for benefits will be adjusted as follows effective June 1, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><strong>Coverage<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Rate Adjustment<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Optional Life<\/td><td>No change<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Long Term Disability (LTD) \u2013 Staff<\/td><td>Decrease of 2.5 %<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Long Term Disability (LTD) \u2013 CUASA<\/td><td>Decrease of 1.2 %, with a partial subsidy of 10%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Health Care<\/td><td>Increase of 5.27%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dental Care<\/td><td>Increase of 3.02%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Life Insurance<\/td><td>Decrease of 10%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The actual amount that you and the university pay for your benefits coverage is available on your pay stub which is accessible through Carleton Central at <a href=\"http:\/\/central.carleton.ca\">http:\/\/central.carleton.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Benefits Anytime<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information about your group benefits, as well as benefit claims forms, can be found on the Human Resources website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/hr\/\">http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/hr\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit the Canada Life GroupNet portal at <a href=\"https:\/\/my.canadalife.com\/sign-in\">https:\/\/my.canadalife.com\/sign-in<\/a> to check out the latest health and wellness topics, make arrangements to have your claim reimbursements deposited directly to your bank account, and access your health and dental claims history, obtain a copy of your benefits card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>For More Information<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions on any of this information or your benefits, please email Human Resources at <a href=\"mailto:humanresources@cunet.carleton.ca\">humanresources@cunet.carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University is proud to provide a comprehensive benefits program for its employees. An important part of managing this program is the annual renewal of contracts with our insurers. At this time we review how the plans have been used and negotiate the best rates possible for the coming year. We have completed our analysis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benefits-for-employees","category-for-employees","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"announcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26412,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26410\/revisions\/26412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}