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<blockquote data-quote="hypo hanna" data-source="post: 1010401" data-attributes="member: 42600"><p>From the FedExaminer forum....May 9th</p><p></p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>YOUR DEPENDENT'S BENEFITS ARE AT RISK!<br /> </td></tr><tr><td> <hr /> </td></tr><tr><td>Starting this March employees are getting packets in the mail from something called the "FedEx Dependent Verification Center" out of Hopkins MN. (I did a little research and found the addy is a mail drop for United Healthcare.) They are being mailed out in phases so you may not have recieved yours yet. <br /> The packet will have on the front in bold lettering, "ACTION REQUIRED: DEPENDENT BENEFIT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION". <br /> <br /> Inside you be instructed to verify that all of your dependents, spouses and children are eligible for benefits. You do this by providing copies of marriage certificates, birth certificates, driver’s licenses and other sensitive and personal information. <br /> <br /> The reasoning put forth by the company is to “help us effectively manage our benefit plan cost.” By that, they mean they want to dump your legal dependents from the plan with a paperwork trick. IF YOU DO NOT PROVIDE THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTS BY THE DEADLINE, (approx. 45 days from the mailing date), YOUR FAMILY WILL BE DROPPED FROM THE PLANS! <br /> This is a callous attempt by the company to cut you out of your promised benefits. Health care benefits you work for. <br /> <br /> FedEx likes to frame your benefit package as a lovely gift they provide to you out of the goodness of their hearts but in reality it is part of your overall compensation and the reason you are not bringing home bigger checks like they do at Big Brown. <br /> <br /> They already have your child’s birthdate so they know exactly when they are too old to be covered. Social Security provides them with tables monthly of every US citizen who has died so they know when to pull those names. The only thing they don’t have the information on is after a divorce and if you fail to tell your manager that when you update your prism file, it would be insurance fraud and you would be subject to termination and litigation for that money. <br /> <br /> What FedEx is hoping to do here is thin the ranks. They know that there is a certain number of employees who for whatever reason won’t complete the verification process. If they scceed in knocking off 5% from the rolls, it represents a savings to FedEx in the tens of millions. (Minus the bonuses for the executives who came up with and implimented the plan.) <br /> <br /> DO NOT IGNORE THIS PACKET. Doing so could cost you a lot. Tell every employee you know and tell them to tell their coworkers. <br /> <br /> Do not let them get away with this SLEEZY attempt to save a few bucks at the expense of your family’s health! <br /> <br /> 30 years ago, I would have never thought FedEx mgmt could be capable of these kinds of underhanded methods. Now it has become commonplace. <br /> <br /> “People company my <img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />!<br /> </td></tr></table></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hypo hanna, post: 1010401, member: 42600"] From the FedExaminer forum....May 9th [TABLE] [TR] [TD]YOUR DEPENDENT'S BENEFITS ARE AT RISK! [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="colspan: 2"][HR][/HR][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="colspan: 2"]Starting this March employees are getting packets in the mail from something called the "FedEx Dependent Verification Center" out of Hopkins MN. (I did a little research and found the addy is a mail drop for United Healthcare.) They are being mailed out in phases so you may not have recieved yours yet. The packet will have on the front in bold lettering, "ACTION REQUIRED: DEPENDENT BENEFIT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION". Inside you be instructed to verify that all of your dependents, spouses and children are eligible for benefits. You do this by providing copies of marriage certificates, birth certificates, driver’s licenses and other sensitive and personal information. The reasoning put forth by the company is to “help us effectively manage our benefit plan cost.” By that, they mean they want to dump your legal dependents from the plan with a paperwork trick. IF YOU DO NOT PROVIDE THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTS BY THE DEADLINE, (approx. 45 days from the mailing date), YOUR FAMILY WILL BE DROPPED FROM THE PLANS! This is a callous attempt by the company to cut you out of your promised benefits. Health care benefits you work for. FedEx likes to frame your benefit package as a lovely gift they provide to you out of the goodness of their hearts but in reality it is part of your overall compensation and the reason you are not bringing home bigger checks like they do at Big Brown. They already have your child’s birthdate so they know exactly when they are too old to be covered. Social Security provides them with tables monthly of every US citizen who has died so they know when to pull those names. The only thing they don’t have the information on is after a divorce and if you fail to tell your manager that when you update your prism file, it would be insurance fraud and you would be subject to termination and litigation for that money. What FedEx is hoping to do here is thin the ranks. They know that there is a certain number of employees who for whatever reason won’t complete the verification process. If they scceed in knocking off 5% from the rolls, it represents a savings to FedEx in the tens of millions. (Minus the bonuses for the executives who came up with and implimented the plan.) DO NOT IGNORE THIS PACKET. Doing so could cost you a lot. Tell every employee you know and tell them to tell their coworkers. Do not let them get away with this SLEEZY attempt to save a few bucks at the expense of your family’s health! 30 years ago, I would have never thought FedEx mgmt could be capable of these kinds of underhanded methods. Now it has become commonplace. “People company my [IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG]! [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/QUOTE]
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