Are educational entities required to offer optional benefits?
Educational entities are not required to offer employees optional benefits. However, if the entity decides to offer optional benefits to employees, the benefits must be purchased through OEBB. In addition, an entity is not required to offer optional benefits to each employee group within the entity, but may do so. As with all of the OEBB benefits, each employee group is able to select the coverage it wants to offer to its employees even if the plans are not the same as those in another employee group at the same entity.
