Specifications include, but are not limited to: The State Personnel Department seeks to provide a self-insured dental plan for State of Indiana employees and retirees. All active full-time (37.5 hours per week) employees and their eligible “dependents”. For employees of the Senate or House of Representatives, eligibility is defined as “full-time” employees, with “full-time” determined by the President Pro Tempore or Speaker of the House. All appointed or elected officials and their eligible “dependents”. Employees eligible under the Short- and Long-Term Disability Program remain eligible during the period of disability. “Dependent” means: Spouse of an employee; Any children, step-children, foster children, legally adopted children of the employee or spouse, or children who reside in the employee’s home: for whom the employee or spouse has been: appointed legal guardian or awarded legal custody by a court, or in an I.C. 31-19-7-1 approved placement for purposes of adoption, under the age of twenty-six (26). Such child shall remain a “dependent” for the entire calendar month during which he or she attains age twenty-six (26). In the event a child: who is defined as a “dependent”, prior to age 19, and meets the following disability criteria, prior to age 19: is incapable of self-sustaining employment by reason of mental or physical disability, resides with the employee at least sic (6) months of the year, and receives 50% of his or her financial support from the parent such child’s coverage shall continue, if satisfactory evidence of such disability and dependency is received by the Plan administrator in accordance with the plan administrator’s disabled dependent certification and recertification procedures. Eligibility for coverage of the “Dependent” will continue until the employee discontinues his or her coverage or the disability no longer exists. A Dependent child of the employee who attained age 19 while covered under another Health Care policy and met the disability criteria specified above, is an eligible Dependent for enrollment so long as no break in Coverage longer than sixty-three (63) days has occurred immediately prior to enrollment. Proof of disability and prior coverage will be required. The plan requires annual documentation from a physician after the child’s attainment of the limiting age.
