Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
Local No. 3 Trust Funds
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Your BAC3 Health Benefits

Just like choosing the right tools for a job, you have important choices to make about your health and health care.  Your BAC 3 health benefits include a choice of health plans so that you can select the one that’s right for you and your family. You also have dental and vision coverage to take care of every aspect of your health.  

Eligibility For Health Benefits

Your eligibility for health benefits is based on a “skip month” system. You become eligible for coverage the first day of the second month following the month in which 360 hours have been reported and paid into your reserve account. These hours must be worked within a consecutive six-month period. For example, if you worked a total of 360 hours between April and July, and these hours were reported and paid for by your employer by August, your eligibility would begin in September.

To maintain eligibility each month, the "cost" is 120 hours per month. If you have more than 120 hours reported and paid, the excess will go into your reserve account. Your reserve account can hold up to a maximum of 480 hours and acts like a bank. In months in which fewer than 120 hours are reported and paid on your behalf, the hours in your reserve account will be used to maintain coverage.

"I worked 150 hours in March, 100 hours in April and 120 hours in May. When will I be eligible?" You will be eligible for coverage the first day of July, provided your employer reports and pays these hours on your behalf by June.

"I only worked 100 hours in September, but I’ve been eligible for the prior 3 months. Will I lose my November eligibility?" As long as you have at least 20 hours in your reserve account, so that your total hours equal 120, your eligibility will be maintained.

"I worked 180 hours in December which is more than the minimum needed. What happens to those additional 60 hours?" Once you establish initial eligibility, any hours reported over 120 each month are credited to your reserve account, up to a maximum of 480.

 

Once you become eligible, your benefit program includes:
Medical Coverage
Dental Coverage
Vision Coverage
Life Insurance