Minnesota Life Insurance
Informational Meetings
Social Security and
Medicare Deductions for Pay Period Ending 8-16-03
Fall 2003 Hourly Student
Employment Reminders
Help Desk
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Minnesota Life Insurance
Informational Meetings
Effective July 1, 2003,
Minnesota Life Insurance Company became the new basic and supplemental term
life insurance carrier for State of Kansas benefits eligible employees. The Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
(KPERS) oversees this program for all State of Kansas benefits eligible
employees regardless of which retirement plan they may be participating in
(KPERS or Kansas Board of Regents).
KPERS will have informational
meetings throughout the State of Kansas about the new term life insurance plan
to help employees understand the plan changes.
The meeting topics include:
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One-time only
open enrollment October 1 through October 31, 2003
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Increase in
guaranteed issue amount only during open enrollment
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Ability to change
coverage at any time with proof of good health
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Increase in
maximum coverage
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Premium reduction
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Family status
change
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Accelerated Death
Benefit - provides a benefit payment up to the full face amount instead of the
death benefit for employees with a life expectancy of 12 months or less.
A representative from
Minnesota Life Insurance Company will conduct the meetings to answer any
questions the employees may have regarding these changes.
The schedule
of employee meetings in Manhattan are:
The schedule of meetings at
other state locations, dates and times, may be found at the following web
site: http://www.kpers.org/mlmtglocations.htm.
Questions should be addressed to the Division of Human Resources at (785) 532-6277.
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Social Security and
Medicare Deductions for Pay Period Ending 8-16-03
This is a reminder that
graduate and hourly students employed during the 8-3-03 to 8-16-03 pay period
will follow the summer enrollment limits in determining whether Social Security
and Medicare taxes should be deducted.
Graduate and hourly student employees are usually subject to these taxes
if they are enrolled in less than 6 credit hours during the fall and spring
semesters and enrolled in less than 3 credit hours during the summer. For the pay period beginning 8-17-03 social
security and Medicare taxes will be based on the Fall
enrollment limit. Questions may be
directed to Payroll and Employee Data, Human Resources, (785) 532-6277.
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Fall 2003 Hourly Student
Employment Reminders
New
students at K-State for the fall semester may begin working on August 17, 2003, as long as they are
officially enrolled in at least one hour for the fall semester.
The last day student employees can work if not
enrolled during the fall is August 19, 2003.
Those employees must be terminated from the student payroll.
For
students being rehired or for students coming back after being off for the
summer, please verify that both the student’s address and the current direct
deposit information in HRIS, if applicable, are up to date.
When hiring or rehiring hourly students please complete an Hourly
Student Data Sheet (PER 40). Instructions
on completing the PER 40 may be obtained on our website at http://www.ksu.edu/hr/infomgmt/hourly.html. The Hourly
Student Employment Guidelines are also available at that website.
Students
are to be hired or rehired into vacant positions. You may find it helpful to run the “Position
Funding Report by Department” for students only. This report will indicate vacant positions as
of a certain date. Instructions for
running this report are located on our website at http://www.ksu.edu/hr/hris/hris-reports.html.
College
Work Study Program - please indicate on the PER 40 whether the student is
eligible. If the section is not
completed on the PER 40, Payroll & Employee Data staff will assume that the
student is eligible for College Work Study.
On
Campus Work Permits are required each semester for non-resident hourly student
employees. This includes current student
employees as well as rehires and new hires.
The on campus work permit is obtained through the International Student
Center. Work permits for new students
will not be issued until after August 18, 2003.
All
students, except F-1 visa holders, are limited during the academic year to 30
hours of work during calendar weeks when classes or final examinations are in
session three full days or more and to 40 hours during other weeks. Students who hold an F-1 visa are limited
during the academic year, excluding student recesses, to 20 hours of work per
week. When employed in more than one department concurrently, the sum of
hours worked in all departments may not exceed these maximums.
Student
employees are exempt from Social Security and Medicare taxes while enrolled in
at least 6 resident credit hours at KSU during the fall or spring semester or 3
credit hours during the summer session.
Student employees with F-1 visas are usually not subject to these taxes
at any time.
Questions may be referred to Payroll & Employee Data, Human Resources at (785) 532-6277.
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Help Desk
Two support groups have
merged … Information Systems Office Help Desk and Computing and Network
Services Help Desk. With the merger, the
Info Tech (IT) Help Desk has been created.
The IT Help Desk provides support for issues pertaining to the Human
Resource Information System (HRIS) and also provides support on issues
pertaining to desktop security, K-State eID and
associated password, e-mail concerns and software viruses. The IT Help Desk is located in 313 Hale
Library. For support, call (785)
532-7722 or e-mail consult@ksu.edu.
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"If you want to make an
easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it." --
Taken from God's Little Instruction Book II
********** Kansas State University Division of Human Resources 103 Edwards Hall Manhattan, KS 66506-4801 Phone (785) 532-6277 Fax (785) 532-6095 Visit us on the web at http://www.ksu.edu/hr/