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Name the four levels/types of coverage available under the Wisconsin Public Employers Group Life Insurance Program.
What are Basic, Supplemental, Additional, and Spouse & Dependent?
This is the whopping number of forms currently owned by RPO.
What is 158?
Benefits attributable to Employer Paid Additional Contributions are always calculated using this WRS calculation method.
What is Money Purchase?
An eligible retired public safety officer may exclude up to this amount annually for qualifying insurance premiums.
What is $3,000?
This is the new insurance system where member insurance information ultimately lands.
What is My Insurance Benefits or MIBS?
How many units of Additional Life Insurance may an eligible member elect?
What is up to three units?
This Unity Form is used to request a retirement estimate and replaced a more manual process for submitting these requests.
What is the B151 Retirement Estimate Request?
True or False: Employer Paid Additional Contributions are after-tax contributions.
What is False? They are pre-tax, similar to required contributions.
Name three of the four types of insurance premiums that may qualify for the program.
What are medical, dental, vision and long-term care?
Employers can submit Employee Demographic and Eligibility data in these two ways.
What are a file or a user interface?
A member wants Supplemental Life Insurance but doesn't have Basic coverage. Can they enroll in Supplemental?
What is No — Basic coverage is required?
Name That Job! B222
What is Life insurance conversion to health/long term care?
Employer Paid Additional Contributions carry their own separate balance. Do they also create a separate annuity value?
What is No? They are included in the annuity value for required contributions.
Since January 1, 2023, eligible retired public safety officers no longer need to apply through ETF for the federal tax exclusion. What do they do instead?
What is self-certify their eligibility on their taxes?
Before employer data moves forward, this application uses Reference Data, MDM and Legacy Applications to perform validations and help ensure data quality.
What is ETA?
It's August 2026 and a newly eligible member asks RPO where they should enroll in life insurance. Where should we direct them?
What is My Insurance Benefits in the My Benefits portal? As of July 1, employees use MIB for life and accident insurance elections and coverage changes.
You are at the front desk, and a member comes in with a 4301 and W4P, What do you do?
What is put it in the basket for SAMS to scan. Unless there is an urgent need to scan in yourself.
LTDI supplemental contributions are only made for members who meet what two conditions?
What are currently receiving LTDI benefits AND have not closed their WRS account?
A member spent 25 years as a police officer but transferred to a non-public-safety position before retiring. Does their long history as an officer automatically make them eligible?
What is No? They must have retired as a public safety officer, subject to the applicable federal eligibility rules.
Put these four in the correct order for employer data:
iMax → ETA → MIBs → MDM
What is ETA → MDM → iMax → MIBs?
A local-government employee asks whether having a WRS account automatically means their employer offers every level of life insurance. What's the answer?
What is No? Local employers can choose to offer Basic only, all levels, or a combination of coverage levels.
If I waive my health insurance for the $2000 stipend and pass away, what happens to my sick leave?
What is you forfeit your sick leave.
You're completing a manual calculation involving Employer Paid Additional Contributions. What additional calculation is required?
What is a separate Money Purchase calculation for the Employer Paid Additional Contributions, which is then added to the Annuitant's Life Only value for required contributions? If Variable applies, the Variable value must also be subtracted to calculate Straight Life.
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE: Who ultimately determines whether a retired member meets the federal definition of an eligible public safety officer: ETF, the former employer, or the individual?
Who is the individual? ETF cannot determine federal eligibility; members with questions should consult a tax adviser or the IRS.
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE: I'm not the source system and I'm not MIBs. An ETL job creates me from MDM data, and I'm then loaded into My Insurance Benefits. What am I?
What is the iMax?