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Voluntary Short Term Disability Coverage Highlights – STD/LTD Plan County of Dane

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Voluntary Short Term Disability (STD) Insurance Short Term Disability insurance pays a weekly benefit in the event you cannot work because of a covered illness or injury. An STD benefit replaces a portion of your weekly income, providing funds directly to you to help pay your bills and living expenses. Standard Insurance Company (The Standard) has developed this document to provide you with information about the optional coverage you may select through County of Dane.

Eligibility Requirements Employee • A regular employee of County of Dane who elected the Short Term/Long Term

Disability plan

• Actively working at least 20 hours each week

• A citizen or resident of the United States or Canada

• Temporary and seasonal employees, full-time members of the armed forces, leased employees and independent contractors are not eligible Premium • Insurance is contributory. The following factors determine the taxability of the benefit amount:

Employer contribution level;

Whether premiums are included or excluded from a member’s gross wages; and Pre-tax and post-tax contributions, if any, by the member

Benefit Amount and Duration Benefit Percentage Your weekly STD benefit is 65 percent of your weekly insured predisability earnings, reduced by deductible income

Plan Maximum Weekly Benefit

$1,000

Plan Minimum Weekly Benefit

$15

Maximum Benefit Period

46 weeks. However, STD Benefits will end on the date Long Term Disability benefits become payable to you under a group plan provided by your employer, even if that occurs before the 46 weeks.

Note:

• All late applications (applying 31 days after becoming eligible), requests for plan changes and reinstatements are subject to medical underwriting approval. Employees eligible but not insured under the prior STD insurance plan are also subject to medical underwriting approval.

• To submit a medical history statement online, visit: http://www.standard.com/mhs.

Employee Coverage Effective Date To become insured, you must satisfy the eligibility requirements listed above, serve an eligibility waiting*, receive medical underwriting approval (if applicable), and be actively at work (able to perform all normal duties of your job) on the day before the scheduled effective date of insurance. If you are not actively at work on the day before the scheduled effective date of insurance, your insurance will not become effective until the day after you complete one full day of active work as an eligible employee.

Please contact your benefits representative for more information regarding the requirements that must be satisfied for your insurance to become effective.

*You are eligible on the first day of the calendar month that follows or coincides with 6 consecutive months as a member.

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Standard Insurance Company Voluntary STD Coverage Highlights – STD/LTD Plan

County of Dane

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Understanding Your Plan Design Benefit Waiting Period

If your claim for STD Benefits is approved by The Standard, benefits become payable after you have served continuously the applicable days noted below for your disability and you remain disabled. Benefits are not payable during the benefit waiting period.

Accidental Injury After 42 days

Physical disease, pregnancy or mental disorder After 42 days

Definition of Disability

You will be considered disabled if, as a result of physical disease, injury, pregnancy or mental disorder:

• You are unable to perform with reasonable continuity the material duties of your own occupation, and

• You suffer a loss of 80 percent in your predisability earnings when working in your own occupation You are not disabled merely because your right to perform your own occupation is restricted, including a restriction or loss of license.

Deductible Income Deductible income is income you receive or are eligible to receive while STD benefits are payable. Deductible income includes, but is not limited to:

• Amounts under an unemployment compensation law

• Amounts because of your disability under any other group insurance

• Disability or retirement benefits under your employer’s retirement plan

• Amounts under any state disability income benefit law or similar law

• Earnings or compensation included in your predisability earnings which you receive or are eligible to receive while STD benefits are payable

• Amounts due from or on behalf of a third party because of your disability, whether by judgment, settlement or other method

• Any amount you receive by compromise, settlement or other method as a result of a claim for any of the above

Additional Features Please see your benefits representative for additional information about the features and benefits below.

Rehabilitation Plan If you are participating in an approved Rehabilitation Plan, The Standard may include payment of some of the expenses you incur in connection with the plan including but not limited to; training and education expenses, family (child and elder) care expenses, job related expenses and job search expenses.

Reasonable Accommodation Expense Benefit

If your employer makes an approved work-site modification that enables you to return to work while disabled, The Standard will reimburse your employer up to a pre-approved amount for some or all of the cost of the modification.

Exclusions Subject to state variations, you are not covered for a disability caused or contributed to by any of the following:

• Your committing or attempting to commit an assault or felony, or your active participation in a violent disorder or riot

• An intentionally self-inflicted injury

• War or any act of war (declared or undeclared, and any substantial armed conflict between organized forces of a military nature)

• The loss of your professional or occupational license or certification

• Any employment for wage or profit

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Limitations STD benefits are not payable for any period when you are:

• Not under the ongoing care of a physician in the appropriate specialty as determined by The Standard

• Not participating in good faith in a plan, program or course of medical treatment or vocational training or education approved by The Standard, unless your disability prevents you from participating

• Confined for any reason in a penal or correctional institution

• Working for wage or profit for any employer or when you are self-employed. This applies whether you are working in your Own Occupation or another occupation

• Receiving sick leave pay, annual or personal leave pay, or other salary continuation including donated amounts from your employer

• Eligible to receive benefits for your disability under a workers’ compensation law or similar law

When Benefits End STD benefits end automatically on the earliest of:

• The date you are no longer disabled

• The date your maximum benefit period ends

• The date you die

• The date benefits become payable under any other disability insurance plan under which you become insured through employment during a period of temporary recovery

• The date you fail to provide proof of continued disability and entitlement to benefits

• If applicable, the date long term disability benefits become payable to you under a long term disability plan

• The date you begin working for any employer

When Insurance Ends Insurance ends automatically on the earliest of the following:

• The date the last period ends for which a premium was paid

• The date your employment terminates

• The date the group policy terminates

• The date you cease to meet the eligibility requirements (insurance may continue for limited periods under certain circumstances)

Group Insurance Certificate If coverage becomes effective, and you become insured, you may receive a group insurance certificate containing a detailed description of the insurance coverage including the definitions, exclusions, limitations, reductions and terminating events. The controlling provisions will be in the group policy. Neither the information presented in this summary nor the certificate modifies the group policy or the insurance coverage in any way.

Rates If you have questions regarding how to determine your earnings, please contact your human resources representative. Premiums for this coverage will be deducted directly from your paycheck.

To calculate your monthly payroll deduction, use the formula indicated below:

1. Enter your average weekly earnings on Line 1. Line 1:

2. Multiply your weekly earnings (Line 1) by 0.65 and enter on Line 2. Line 2:

3. Rate. Line 3: $0.175

4. Multiply Line 2 by the amount entered on Line 3. Line 4:

5. Divide the amount entered on Line 4 by 10 and enter on Line 5. Line 5:

The amount shown on Line 5 is your estimated monthly payroll deduction.

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For more than 100 years we have been dedicated to our core purpose: to help people achieve financial well-being and peace of mind. We have earned a national reputation for quality products and superior service by always striving to do what is right for our customers.

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, The Standard is a nationally recognized provider of group Disability, Life, Dental and Vision insurance and Individual Disability insurance. We provide insurance to more than 24,800 groups, covering over 8 million employees nationwide.** Our first group policy, written in 1951 and still in force today, stands as a testament to our commitment to building long-term relationships.

To learn more about products from The Standard, Contact your human resources department or visit us at www.standard.com.

** As of June 30, 2013, based on internal data developed by Standard Insurance Company.

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