Who is Eligible for Educational Assistance?

As an employee in a collective bargaining unit of a contributing employer, you become a Participant in the Plan on the first day of your fourth month of employment.

To be eligible for an educational assistance benefit for a school year that begins in August and ends the following June, you must begin working in the month of May. You must remain a Plan Participant through the following June to be eligible for educational assistance benefits provided you meet all other Plan requirements (see the section titled “Requirements to Received Educational Assistance Benefits”).

When you are eligible for educational assistance benefits, your dependents are also eligible, provided they remain a dependent for the entire school year and meet all other Plan requirements (see the section titled “Requirements to Receive Educational Assistance Benefits”). Your dependents are:

Your spouse;

Unmarried child under the age of 26 that is dependent on you for at least half of their support and is claimed as a dependent on your Federal Income Tax Return and regularly resides with you; and

Opposite and Same Sex Domestic Partners who were added to coverage on or before December 31, 2014.

Please note that the term “child” includes a stepchild, legally adopted child or child of a domestic partner.