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Montgomery County commissioners approve changes to 2025-26 ancillary benefits, keep health-plan core unchanged
Summary
County commissioners voted unanimously to adopt a dental plan option that keeps the county's current health coverage intact while adding a lower-cost vision network and switching employer-sponsored life and ancillary programs to Sun Life.
Montgomery County commissioners on Feb. 3 approved a package of employee benefits changes that keeps the county's core health coverage intact, adopts a different dental option, adds a new vision-network choice and moves several ancillary employer-sponsored programs to Sun Life.
The commissioners voted to (1) adopt dental Option 3 for the 2025-26 plan year (dental only), (2) add the VSP vision network as an employee-paid option alongside the existing Vision Care Direct offering, and (3) switch the county's basic employer-sponsored life, AD&D, accident and critical-illness/EAP elements to a Sun Life plan. All three motions passed by unanimous roll-call votes.
The commissioners were presented with a comparison showing the pooled dental option under consideration would lower the county's annual cost by roughly $1,000 while reducing the per-person calendar-year dental maximum from $2,000 under the county's current plan to $1,500…
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