The Potomac Conference is committed to the wellbeing of its employees. The videos below covers our benefits package, which includes:
- Primary Benefits such as healthcare, retirement, basic life insurance, long-term disability insurance, wellness program, employee assistance program and worker’s compensation.
. - Voluntary Benefits such as supplemental insurances, accident insurance, Flex Spending Account (FSA), disability flex, accidental death and dismemberment insurance (AD&D), critical illness and hospital indemnity.
Select Your Employee Status
To ensure compliance with federal and state laws and regulations, eligibility for benefits is determined by the classification of each employee’s classification. Please select your classification to access your benefits package forms.
Note: Full-time is described as someone who works 38+ hours a week. This individual may be salaried or hourly. Please review your benefit options and complete your selection by following the directions at the top of the page.
Make Your Benefits Selections
To make and complete your selection of benefit options listed, please carefully read all of the information on this page and return to this section to register online by:
- Going to Ascend to Wholeness
- Selecting “Benefits Management”
- Selecting “I am an employee who does not have a healthcare member ID number”
- Username will be assigned to you by someone in Human Resources
- Completing your selections
Healthcare
The Ascend to Wholeness Healthcare Plans are designed to empower you to achieve your personal goals of complete, whole-person health through the mind, body and spirit. This is accomplished through robust benefits provided by the plan that are designed to assist and educate you on your current health, as well as provide a strong foundation for life-long changes to achieve a “wholistic” lifestyle. Improving your health can have positive side effects such as improved self-confidence, greater feelings of happiness and the potential to save you money.
Ascend to Wholeness offers two health plan options. Both plans, Accelerate and Access, provide integrated wellness and care-coordination benefits. The plans encourages your engagement in wellness activities. Ascend to Wholeness provides access to biometric screenings, wellness assessments, personalized health coaching, a wellness portal and various educational tools.
Learn more about the plans and compare them so you can make the choice that suits best you and your family!
For spouse coverage please read Potomac Conference Policy listed below. For ALL dependents to be added to the plan you are asked to provide a SSN for each one of them. If you are not able or willing to provide a SSN for your dependents you will need to fill the SSN Acknowledgement form and contact Human Resources at 540.886.0771.
Monthly premiums for 2023 are listed below:
Tier (Enrollment) Access | Accelerate
Employe Only $80 $135
Employee + Spouse $170 $263
Employee + 1 Child $150 $207
Employee + 2 or More Children $150 $207
Employee + Family $235 $308
Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
Active full-time employees, their spouses and dependents are eligible for basic and supplemental life insurance as defined in the North American Division Working Policy. It is covered by the employer and carried by VOYA. This guide you help you to learn more about this benefit.
- EMPLOYER PAID – Basic Life Insurance: Employee is covered for $ 100,000, spouse is covered for $ 50,000 and each child is covered for $ 10,000. This benefit also covers funeral costs.
. - EMPLOYEE PAID – Supplemental Life Insurance: As an employee you can enroll on supplemental insurance for yourself, spouse and children up to $ 250,000. If you want to have a higher coverage you need to fill the EOI – Evidence of Insurability and send it to VOYA.
Employee Assistance Program
Personal issues, planning for life events or simply managing daily life can affect your work, health and family. Potomac employees have access to ComPsych® GuidanceResources®, which provides support, resources and information for personal and work-life issues. GuidanceResources is company-sponsored, confidential and provided at no charge to you and your dependents. This flyer explains how GuidanceResources can help you and your family deal with everyday challenges.
Learn more:
Flex Spending Account
Medical Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) can help reimburse you for eligible expenses you or your eligible dependents incur that are not paid by your existing healthcare plan and allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for:
Refer to FSA guides to learn more about it and discover what products and services are FSA eligible.
Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
Employer provides a basic AD&D Insurance carried by VOYA to all of our employees according to their role. You can also choose to supplement it. Disability flex, AD&D, critical illness and hospital indemnity are all benefits carried by THE HARTFORD. This brochure will help you to know more about it so you can elect what is best for you.
Retirement
The Potomac Conference is invested in your future. Plan today and enjoy tomorrow.
As a full-time new hire employee, you are automatically enrolled in the Adventist Retirement Plan starting with your first paycheck, at which time Empower Retirement, the plan’s record keeper, will create an account for you. This means that 3% will be taken from your eligible compensation each pay period and contributed to the plan as a salary reduction contribution. You can choose to contribute more, less, or even nothing at any time by signing into your plan’s account on the Empower Retirement website and electing a different contribution percentage (including a 0% contribution). As a full-time employee, Potomac Conference Corporation will contribute 5% into your plan and also make a dollar-for-dollar matching contribution on amounts you contribute (up to 3%) of your eligible compensation.
Find out everything there is to know about the retirement plan Potomac offers and login to EmpowerRetirement by electing a contribution % on your plan.
Wellness Program
The Potomac Conference Employee Wellness Program is intended to promote optimized health and well-being, resulting in a healthy, happy, productive workforce. It has been designed to complement the Healthy for Life Rewards program that is offered to all employees enrolled in the NAD Health Care Assistance Plan (HCAP).
The benefits offered include:
- $15.00 per month for each month in which the employee exercises 30 minutes per day
for a minimum of 10 days within that month.
. - This benefit is only allotted once per month. If the employee exercises more than
10 days within the same month, there is no additional monetary benefit for the
additional workouts.
How to Self-Report of Monthly Activities: In order to receive your benefit in a timely manner, eligible employees need to submit their activity log by the 15th of the following month. Example: Activity for January should be submitted by February 15th in order to receive the $15.00 benefit on your February paycheck. In order to be considered for reimbursement, Activity Logs must be submitted within three (3) months of the month in which the activity occurred.
Example: Activity for January must be submitted by April 15th at the latest.
Access the online form to submit your activity log. This form can also be access by going to pcsda.org > employees > activity log.
Password is required to access this online form. Please contact HR
Fitness Equipment Reimbursement
Eligible employees can be reimbursement for 20% of a fitness equipment purchase price up, to a maximum of $100.00 per year. Items reimbursed must be related to any type of personal fitness or workout equipment. Example: Athletic Shoes, Treadmill, Elliptical Machines, Circuit Weight Training Machines, workout Clothes, etc.
Access the online form to submit a reimbursement request. Or it can be found a pcsda.org > Employees > Forms & Policies.
Auto Insurance
Full-time employees eligible for additional automobile insurance assistance are employees whose category maximum is 100 percent or more of the Remuneration Factor, excluding educational personnel K-16. Please refer to policy. Check our policy to learn more about it.
Tuition Assistance
Full-time employees in administrative, professional and supervisory positions may receive tuition assistance for dependent children or for themselves. Learn more about how to benefit from it by reading our policy.
Note: Part-time is described as someone who works 30 to 37.5 hours a week. This individual may be salaried or hourly. Please review your benefit options and complete your application by following the directions on this page.
Make Your Healthcare Selection
To make and complete your selection of benefit options listed, please carefully read all of the information on this page and return to this section to register online by:
- Going to Ascend to Wholeness
- Selecting “Benefits Management”
- Selecting “I am an employee who does not have a healthcare member ID number”
- Username will be assigned to you by Human Resources
- Completing your selections
Healthcare
The Ascend to Wholeness Healthcare Plans are designed to empower you to achieve your personal goals of complete, whole-person health through the mind, body and spirit. This is accomplished through robust benefits provided by the plan that are designed to assist and educate you on your current health, as well as provide a strong foundation for life-long changes to achieve a “wholistic” lifestyle. Improving your health can have positive side effects such as improved self-confidence, greater feelings of happiness and the potential to save you money.
Ascend to Wholeness offers two health plan options. Both plans, Accelerate and Access, provide integrated wellness and care-coordination benefits. The plans encourages your engagement in wellness activities. Ascend to Wholeness provides access to biometric screenings, wellness assessments, personalized health coaching, a wellness portal and various educational tools.
Learn more about the plans and compare them so you can make the choice that suits best you and your family!
For spouse coverage please read Potomac Conference Policy listed below. For ALL dependents to be added to the plan you are asked to provide a SSN for each one of them. If you are not able or willing to provide a SSN for your dependents you will need to fill the SSN Acknowledgement form and contact Human Resources at 540.886.0771.
Retirement
As a part-time new hire employee, you are automatically enrolled in the Adventist Retirement Plan starting with your first paycheck, at which time Empower Retirement, the plan’s record keeper, will create an account for you. This means that 3% will be taken from your eligible compensation each pay period and contributed to the plan as a salary reduction contribution. You can choose to contribute more, less, or even nothing at any time by signing into your plan’s account on the Empower Retirement website and electing a different contribution percentage (including a 0% contribution).
Find out everything there is to know about the retirement plan Potomac offers and login to EmpowerRetirement by electing a contribution % on your plan.
