Benefits

FY25 Employee Benefit Guide

Employee Discounts

Call the Benefits Line at 854-0404 or email BenefitsTeam@traviscountytx.gov

Travis County offers Regular Employees a choice of four self-insured health plans. The plans are administered by United Healthcare and have different levels of coverage and premium cost. See the Benefit Guide for a complete comparison of the plans offered.

Additional UHC Programs and Services

Register with www.myuhc.com

All Travis County health plans use a Traditional Formulary administered by OptumRx. For detailed information regarding copays, refer to the Employee Benefits Guide.

Travis County offers four dental plans administered by UnitedHealthcare to Regular Employees. The following information describes the highlights and benefits of each dental plan including the monthly premium information. To find a UnitedHealthcare provider, visit www.myuhc.com

Healthy eyes and clear vision are an important part of your overall health and quality of life. Your vision plan helps you care for your eyes while saving money. To find a Davis Vision By Metlife provider, visit Davis Vision's By Metlife website.

Deer Oaks Employee Assistance Program provides access to counseling, legal and financial service in addition to Work/Life support. The EAP benefit covers up to five confidential, short-term counseling sessions at no cost to employees and their dependents. For additional information, refer to the Employee Benefits Guide. Online tool available at Deer Oaks Services. The member login and password is traviscountytx.

Regular Employees receive Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage in the amount of $50,000. The coverage is provided by Travis County at no cost to the employee. Regular Employees also have an option to purchase additional life insurance which includes Supplemental Life, Dependent Life and Personal Accident Insurance. For a full description of life insurance options and rates, refer to the Employee Benefits Guide.

Disability coverage provides benefits when you are unable to work for a short or long period of time due to a covered illness or injury. This coverage is administered by New York Life. For a full description of Short and Long Term Disability and rates, refer to the Employee Benefits Guide.

 

A FSA is an account you set up to pre-fund anticipated eligible medical, dental, vision or dependent care expenses. Your full annual contribution is available at the beginning of the plan year. The FSA is administered by United Healthcare. For a full description, refer to the Employee Benefits Guide.

A HSA can be used for qualified expenses which include medical, dental and vision. Contributions to an HSA are tax free. The funds in this account rollover from year to year. The account is also portable, which means it stays with you if you leave employment or retire. To be eligible for the HSA you must be enrolled in the High Deductible Health Plan. For a full description and contribution limits, refer to the Employee Benefits Guide.

Travis County offers you the opportunity to help plan for the future by providing Long Term Care Insurance. Coverage is provided by UNUM. All active employees are guaranteed to be accepted, with no medical underwriting during the initial enrollment period. Family members can apply as well, but will undergo medical underwriting. To enroll, visit the UNUM website.

On July 29th, 2014, the Commissioners Court approved the implementation of a Catastrophic Sick Leave Policy. This policy allows employees to donate hours to a “Pool." At any time during the previous two fiscal years, have not had a break in employment during those two fiscal years. These hours can be used by those employees who have donated and exhaust all of their paid time due to a catastrophic illness. Here are some of the highlights of the policy.

Who is eligible to donate time to the CSL Pool?

Travis County Employees must:

  1. Be a Fulltime employee with Travis County; and
  2. Have worked full time with Travis County for 12 consecutive months; and
  3. Voluntarily donate a minimum of 8 hours increments from any combination of sick and vacation hours. (Maximum of 40 hours) during Open Enrollment.
    1. Donation may be sick leave and/or vacation leave (in any combination of sick and vacation must be in whole increments)
    2. Your remaining balance of sick and/or vacation leave as of October 1st must be sufficient to cover your donation.

At separation, employees may donate up to 80 hours of sick and/or vacation leave.

Who is eligible to use CSL time from the Pool?

  1. An employee donate a minimum of 8 hours (or more in 8 hour increments) any time during the previous two fiscal years during Open Enrollment to be eligible from October 1 – September 30.
  2. An employee must be absent from work seven consecutive work days as a result of their own catastrophic injury or illness or that of an immediate family member (See 110.076 (a) (7) for immediate family member), and
  3. An employee must submit the request for CSL with appropriate medical documentation to the Administrator for consideration for approval.

What qualifies as a catastrophic injury or Illness?

The CLS Policy provides the following definition in Section 110.372:

  • (1) Accrued Leave. Either accrued sick leave or accrued vacation leave earned by the employee.
  • (2) Catastrophic Illness or Injury. A catastrophic illness or injury is defined as a severe condition or combination of conditions affecting the mental or physical health of the employee which has resulted in a life threatening condition and /or has had a major impact on life functions. Such-life functions shall include, but are not limited to, the loss of physical senses, the loss of physiological processes, or the loss of limb. Leave taken on an intermittent basis which does not require the employee to be absent from work for a period of at least 7 days does not qualify. A health care provider, as defined below, must certify the catastrophic condition in order for the employee’s to request time from the CSLP.

The catastrophic illness or injury must:

  • (A) Present for a minimum of seven consecutive calendar days; and
  • (B) Require continuous or on-going medical treatment or rehabilitation by a health care provider for an extended time; and
  • (C) Be characterized by the sudden onset of symptoms which can be life threatening, or can cause significant or serious impairment or disability; and
  • (D) Be incurable or so serious as to significantly interfere with the ability of the employee or an immediate family member to perform with reasonable continuity the material duties of his or her job for 30 consecutive days or longer, and includes complications that requires one or more of the following:
    • (i) hospital care like inpatient care in a hospital, hospice, or residential medical care facility, including any period of incapacity or subsequent treatment in connection with or consequent to that care, or
    • (ii) supervision due to an incapacity for a permanent or long term condition for which treatment may not be effective, like a severe stroke or heart attack or the terminal stages of a disease; or
    • (iii) multiple treatments by a licensed practitioner for a non-chronic condition when the treatments results in an absence from work, such as chemotherapy or radiation for cancer or therapy for organ transplant, but
    • (iv) does not include conditions like elective surgery, a broken limb, cold or flu or allergy, some routine types of surgery, such as orthopedic, appendectomy with minor or no complications.

Catastrophic Sick Leave Pool Policy and Forms

Forms may be returned by email to csl.administrator@traviscountytx.gov or by fax (512) 854-4201.

Questions? Contact HRMD Leave Coordinator at (512) 854-9874.