SUMMARY OF BENEFITS

Membership Eligibility: Current and former FSA employees: if eligible for full membership in NASCOE, must be a full member to take advantage of the benefits. If a person is only eligible for associate membership in NASCOE – you must be an associate member. (RASCOE membership in many cases but not all qualifies for the discounts). NADD, NAFEC NASE, and NACS must be an associate member of NASCOE to take advantage of the benefits.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF BENEFITS FOR NASCOE MEMBERS

2007 – 2008 Dues Year

WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR NASCOE BENEFITS: NASCOE Exec Policies – item #33 explains who is eligible and how.  Ex) Current and Former FSA employees – if eligible for full membership in NASCOE – must be a full member to take advantage of the benefits.  If a person is only eligible for associate membership in NASCOE – you must be an associate member.  NADD and NAFEC – must be an associate member of NASCOE to take advantage of the benefits.

A basic exception) If the person is truly a retired NASCOE member then a RASCOE member that are not current FSA employees are eligible for any NASCOE benefit unless that membership is required by the company offering the benefit.

All benefits and explanation can be found on www.nascoe.org and clicking on Benefits.

The following coverage and policies are available to members through J. M. Marketing at any time:

·        Cancer and Intensive Care

·        Long Term Care Protection (Nursing Home and Assisted Living)

·        Heart/Stroke

·        Accident Policies

·        Disability Insurance

·        Hospital Indemnity Plan

·        Final Expense Policy

·        Critical Illness

THE FOLLOWING HAVE RESTRICTIONS

·        Dental Insurance is available only during the open season or life changing event

THESE POLICIES ARE A MUST

·        Directors and Association Liability Policy – a policy titled “Not for Profit Organization Liability Policy”. This policy covers NASCOE from a wrongful act, employment practices or personal injury or publishers liability committed by an insured (officer) of NASCOE.

Both of these policies are common for organizations such as NASCOE and they provide a large variety of coverage for the NASCOE organization. A number of places hosting a convention will require the event policy before they will allow a NASCOE function at their property. In order to have coverage under these policies your State must invite a representative of J.M. Marketing to your meeting at least 30 days prior to your event.

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS

Benefits are offered through Theme Parks and SixFlagsFamilyParks. Discounts must be submitted through your State Benefit Chairperson and then through your Area Chairperson. Your NASCOE Membership will be verified. There is no discount offered through Disney World or DisneyLand.

You are able to utilize Federal Credit Unions and all services offered.

Eligible to utilize 1 hour of service through the NASCOE Attorney (Please refer to the Web site for details

Cell Phone Discounts through ALLTEL and CINGULAR

BENEFITS FOR ALL FSA EMPLOYEES

Information provided by members of the FSA Family

• This program is available to USDA employees. Access the following web-site, (www.gov.purchasingpower.com) and enter your pay frequency and state. The items you pull up will show a payroll deduction per pay period.

• Apple offers Government Employees 17% off. For more information call 1-800-MY-APPLE or www.apple.com/r/store/government/epp.html
 

Cell Phone discounts for Verizon, Sprint/Nextel, T-Mobile. (See Fact Sheet on NASCOE web site under Benefits)

I encourage everyone to go on line and read up on your benefits available at www.nascoe.org and click on Benefits.  Also available at www.wiwascoe.org and click on Benefits.