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 > City of Chesapeake, Virginia > Government > City Agencies, Departments, and Offices > Departments > Human Resources Department > Employee Benefits > Optional Benefits

Optional Benefits


The City offers additional benefits which employees can elect. For more information about optional benefits, visit www.optimahealth.com/ches.

Deferred Compensation

Regular full-time and part-time City employees are eligible to participate in the International City Management Association (ICMA-RC) Retirement Corporation deferred compensation plan, which is covered under Section 457 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Health Insurance

The City offers three plan options through Optima Health for regular full-time employees.

https://www.optimahealth.com/vendor/machine-readable-data/  This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed- amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data. 

Dental Insurance

The City offers one plan through Anthem Dental for regular full-time employees.

Vision Insurance

The City offers one plan through Davis Vision for regular full-time employees.

Flexible Spending Accounts

The City offers medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts through WageWorks. The medical care flexible spending account is offered to regular full-time employees. The dependent flexible spending account is available for regular full-time and part-time employees.

Long Term Disability Insurance

The City provides employees in VRS Plans 1 or 2 a Long Term Disability (LTD) benefit with 40% income replacement after a 180 day waiting period that provides coverage for two years. Employees in VRS Plans 1 or 2 can purchase additional coverage to decrease the waiting period to 90 days, increase the income replacement to 60% and maintain coverage until the employee reaches normal social security retirement age. Employees in the VRS Hybrid Plan are provided employer-paid short and long term disability. For more information, please visit www.varetire.org.

Legal Services Plan

The City offers one plan through Legal Resources for regular full-time and part-time employees.

Optional Life Insurance

You are eligible to purchase optional life insurance for yourself and your spouse and dependent children through Minnesota Life. The costs of this coverage vary with your selection of coverage and your age.

If you have any questions about the information on this page, you may contact a member of our benefits team by emailing hrbenefits@CityOfChesapeake.net.

 
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