Employee Benefit Information
2025 Employee Benefits Enrollment
Santa Fe College and all other Florida College System institutions are transitioning to the Florida State Group health benefits plan beginning January 1, 2025.
Santa Fe College full-time eligible employees will be REQUIRED to enroll during the open enrollment period, October 14 – November 1, 2024, in order to receive coverage in 2025. Employees who fail to sign up for health benefits during open enrollment, will NOT have access to them in 2025.
Santa Fe College will retain some existing benefits. These also will require employees to enroll or re-enroll in them.
Benefits enrollment will take place in People First, for state plans, and Workday, for the remaining Santa Fe plans.
Timeline
September 2024: Employees will receive an information packet from the State of Florida People First Service Center. This packet will contain login information needed to enroll for the State Group Insurance Program (SGIP) benefits through the People First website. Do not discard or lose this information.
October 2024: October 14 – November 1: Open enrollment for the State Group Plan and Santa Fe College benefits.
December 2024: First payroll deductions for the new elections are taken for 2025 benefit plans.
January 1, 2025: Benefit plans are in effect.
3-step Open Enrollment Process
1. Employees must log on to the DMS/People First website to enroll in primary benefits.
Then employees will log on to Workday to enroll in ancillary benefits.
2. Employees will be required to verify all dependents through DMS website.
Required documentation to include Tax Transcripts, marriage license, and birth certificates. Enrollment will not be completed until documentation has been upload.
3. Employees will receive an enrollment confirmation once they have completed enrollment.
Summary of Benefits
Santa Fe College evaluated benefits in the state plan and the college's current offerings and has made available the best choices from each plan, based on how robust the offering was and whether it was a benefit not offered by the state.
- Health
- Vision
- Cancer Insurance
- Hospitalization
- Flex Spending Account
- Supplemental Life
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment
- Dental
- Basic Life*
- Accident Insurance
- Hospital Intensive Care
- Short-term Disability*
- Dependent Life
The 2025 Schedule of Benefits is not yet ready, but you can view the 2024 book, which is nearly the same.
* Both the state and SF offer Basic and Short-Term Disability. Check closely on the differences before choosing.
- Basic Life*
- Employee Assistance Program
- Short-term Disability*
- Long-term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Other Benefits
* Both the state and SF offer Basic and Short-Term Disability. Check closely on the differences before choosing.
Life Insurance
- SF will continue to provide College paid insurance of 1.5 times salary
- Securian will provide a $25,000 policy with the state
- The Standard will provide the remaining about of 1.5 times salary minus $25,000
- Securian: 1 to 7 times your base annual salary ($1 million max.)
- Guaranteed issue for new hires up to 5 times salary ($500,000 max)
Securian
Varies between 25 and 100 percent of coverage (employees only)
Securian
- Dependent spouse – guaranteed if you enroll when you are first hired or get married.
- Dependent child – guaranteed issue (covers all eligible children).
Additional Insurance
Colonial Insurance Co. (SGP)
Supplements income loss during short-term disability to help pay living expenses.
The Standard (SF)
- Allows continuity of coverage for existing employees.
- Maximum weekly benefit of $2,000
- Maternity covered the same as any other illness
The state does not offer long-term disability
The Standard (SF)
- Allows continuity of coverage for existing employees.
Colonial Insurance Co. (SGP)
Specified benefit amount(s) payable directly to the insured for covered accidents in which a doctor's office or hospital is visited for treatment of an accidental injury
Cigna Health or New Era
- Specified payment amounts directly to covered individual when hospitalized.
- Additional payments, depending on the coverage selected, for ancillary services related to hospitalization.
Aflac or Colonial Insurance Co.
- Specified benefit amount(s) payable directly to the insured for cancer screenings, diagnosis, and treatment.
Note: Existing Cancer Plan through Allstate will be grandfathered in, but will not be accepting new enrollments.
Aflac
Daily benefit for confinement in a hospital intensive care or a sub-acute intensive care unit.
Additional Benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts -offered through State Group Plan
- Employee Assistance Program, The Standard, offered by Santa Fe College
- LegalShield, offered by Santa Fe College.