Your eligible dependents are covered for certain benefits as outlined in this booklet. Eligible dependents include:

• Your spouse
  
  
• Your domestic partner who is eighteen years of age or older, who is not married or related by blood in a manner that would bar marriage in New York State, who has a close and committed personal relationship with the member and, who lives with the member and has been living with same on a continuous basis for one year, and who has been enrolled as a domestic partner by the member and has not terminated the partnership. A person may be enrolled as a domestic partner if his/her partner is a Unit III or Unit IV employee of Suffolk Community College on the date of registration for whom the Employer makes contributions to the FA Benefit Fund or has retired as a Unit III or Unit IV employee of Suffolk Community College and is currently a member of the FA Benefit Fund. No person is eligible to be enrolled as a domestic partner who at the time of enrollment or at any time during the prior six months was enrolled as a member of another domestic partership.
  
  
• Your unmarried dependent children who have not reached their 19th birthday (including legally adopted children) or stepchildren who reside with the covered member and for whom the covered member provides full financial support and who have not reached their 19th birthday. To establish eligibility of a member’s step-child, the member must submit an affidavit verifying that the child resides full-time with the member and proof of financial dependency as shown by income tax returns. This affidavit is available at the Fund Office.
  
  
• Unmarried dependent children who are full-time students at an accredited educational institution and have not reached their 25th birthday. An unmarried child who is a full-time student will be covered up to age 25 if he/she is enrolled for 12 undergraduate credit hours or 6 graduate credit hours per semester. A Student Verification Form (obtained from the Fund Office) must be completed and submitted to the Fund before a claim can be honored. This form must be filed each semester.
  
  
• Your unmarried children, regardless of age, who are incapable of self-sustaining employment by reason of mental or physical handicap and who become so prior to their attainment of age 19 and further provided that such children reside with a covered member and are wholly dependent on the covered member for support. You must submit proof of your dependent child’s incapacity to the Fund Office within 31 days after the date he or she attains the age at which his or her coverage would otherwise terminate, or within 31 days after you are notified of his or her ineligibility, whichever is later. Proof of the continued existence of such incapacity shall be furnished to the Fund Office from time to time at its request.

BENEFITS QUESTIONS? PLEASE CONTACT MARY AT (631) 732-6500.

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