Green Bay school board discusses shifting district-paid income protection plan to employee-paid short-term disability

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Board members and administrators debated a proposal to transition the district's district-funded Income Protection Plan (IPP) to a voluntary, employee-paid short-term disability plan administered through the district's long-term disability carrier; staff were asked to return with updated cost scenarios and shared-cost options.

Lynn Gerlach, vice president of the Green Bay Area Public School District Board of Education, opened the discussion on a staff recommendation to replace the district-paid Income Protection Plan with a voluntary, employee-paid short-term disability plan.

The proposal would end the district's long-standing IPP, which staff told the board has averaged about $720,000 in employer cost per year over recent years and paid 82.5% of eligible employees' income after sick leave is exhausted. Mike Fries, a district staff presenter on benefits, told the board a third-party administrator had agreed the proposal could drop its minimum participation assumption to 20% and raise the maximum weekly benefit from $1,000 to $1,500 "with no change in the rates for the employees," and he said he would update the memo with that late-afternoon information.

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Green Bay school board discusses shifting district-paid income protection plan to employee-paid short-term disability

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