New enrollment window for disability coverage
Dallas ISD will have a new provider for long-term disability benefits starting Oct. 1 and will introduce a short-term disability option. If you signed up for long-term disability during this fall’s enrollment window, you must enroll again between Sept. 24 and Oct. 2 to keep this benefit.
You can enroll for the new short-term disability benefit during that window of time.
This is an ACTIVE enrollment for long-term disability, which means that this benefit will not automatically roll over when the district switches providers starting Oct. 1.
Short-term Disability
All active, full-time, and part-time employees who are active contributing members of the Teacher Retirement System or who are employees for 20 or more hours per week may elect to enroll for voluntary short-term disability. Short-term disability will cover non-occupational injuries and illnesses. The benefits will begin after you have used all your state, local, and vacation time and satisfied the elimination period you choose during enrollment.
When enrolling in this benefit, you can select two options.
- 14-day elimination period from the first day of disability and get 50% of your weekly earnings up to a maximum of $1,500.00 per week.
- 30-day elimination period from the first day of disability and get 50% of your weekly earnings up to a maximum of $1,500.00 per week.
Long-term Disability
All active, full-time, and part-time employees who are active contributing members of the Teacher Retirement System or who are employees for 20 or more hours per week may elect to enroll for voluntary long-term disability.
When enrolling in this benefit, there is only one option: 90-day elimination period from the first day of disability. You can get 50% of your weekly earnings up to $8,000 per month.
Enrolling in short-term and long-term disability
Dallas ISD Benefits will open the employee portal to select short-term and long-term disability only from Sept. 24-Oct. 2. Remember that if you had previously enrolled in long-term disability, you must reenroll during this window with the new provider.
You can also call the Benefits Contact Center at (972) 925-4000, Option 2, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday. Weekend hours will be available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. only during this enrollment window.
For detailed information about these disability options, click the links below
For more information, please visit www.dallasisd.org/benefits and click on the Icon. You can call the Internal Benefits Department at 972-925-4300 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday or email benefits@dallasisd.org.
