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Benefits
CommonHealth Wellness Program
The state's CommonHealth program offers exciting wellness programs for benefits-eligible state employees, families, and retirees in changing unhealthy behavior and lifestyles. Longwood University partners with CommonHealth to offer programs on campus. Notices regarding campus CommonHealth seminars may be found at HR Communications.
Flexible Reimbursement Accounts
The Commonwealth of Virginia provides employees the option to enroll in Dependent Care and Medical Reimbursement Flexible Spending Accounts. Deductions for these employee benefits are on a pre-tax basis.
Health Care Coverage: Statewide COVA Plan
The Statewide COVA plan is available to all Longwood employees.
Life Insurance
Virginia Retirement System - term life; employee's salary rounded to nearest thousand, doubled, and doubled again in the event of an accident.
Optional Life Insurance
(VRS/Minnesota Life) An employees may purchase up to four times your salary worth of life insurance on yourself; half of what you purchase for yourself on your spouse; and up to $15,000 on children. Cost charts outlined are available from Human Resources.
Premium Conversion
Premium Conversion is a pre-tax deduction for health benefits premiums available to all state employees. An employee must enroll in premium conversion in order to take advantage of this benefit.
Retirement Plans
The Virginia Retirement system administers a defined benefit plan, a group life insurance plan, a deferred compensation plan and a cash match plan for Virginia's public sector employees, as well as the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program for state employees. They are headquartered in Richmond Virginia.
The following information is available from VRS
- About VRS
- VRS Benefits
- Defined Contribution Plans
- Calculating Benefits
- Retirement Planning
- Publications and Forms
- FAQs
- ORPs and Comparing Plans
- Purchase of Prior Service
- Wartime Benefits
- Memo to Members
Tuition Waiver
Employees are allowed to take one class per semester free (one during summer session). In addition, the comprehensive fee is waived for dependents of employees.
Worker's Compensation
Longwood University Employees are eligible to receive compensation under the Virginia Worker's Compensation Act for injuries and/or illnesses incurred in the course of official work-related duties. Compensation may include payment of medical expenses and for time lost from work. Compensability is determined by Managed Care Innovations, the Commonwealth's insurance carrier for worker's compensation.
A Longwood Incident Report should be completed, signed by the employee and the employee's supervisor, and submitted to Human Resources within 24 hours when a work-related injury or illness occurs.
- Longwood University Accident Form (pdf)
- Longwood University's Return to Work Policy
Long Term Care (LTC) Insurance
Commonwealth of Virginia (CoV) Voluntary Group Long Term Care Insurance Program provides long-term care services such as nursing home care or at-home care to assist with bathing, eating or other activities of daily living.
You may choose from three (3) benefit increase options which allow the coverage to be increased over time. Coverage is available for your spouse, adult children, parents, parents-in-law, step parents, step parents-in-law, grandparents, grandparents-in-law, step grandparents and step grandparents-in-law who are between the ages of 18 and 79.
Members of the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program (VSDP) have an automatic employer-paid long-term care benefit through the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) but may also make application for this coverage. Additional information about enrolling in the program is available from Genworth Life at 1.866.859.6060 or visit http://genworth.com/cov.
- Download Genworth Long Term Care Presentation (zip, 61MB)
- Genworth Flyer (pdf)
Commuter Benefits
Tax-Free Commuter Benefit (pdf)
Benefits Manager
Fletia M. Lewis
Human Resources Office
212D Lancaster
Phone: 434.395.2076
Fax: 434.395.2666
email: lewisfm@longwood.edu
