I work for a company that has locations all around the country with quite a few in the state of California. When same-sex marriage was legalized in California, the question of how benefits would be provided to those same-sex spouses must have come up in company meetings. Below are two photos. One shows what our benefits package said for 2008 and the second shows what our benefits package says for 2009. These are the “rules of eligibility.”
After consulting with a few people about this change, we are all wondering if people’s benefits are going to be taken away by this change. Does anyone know? Let’s say that I lived in CA and got married. Under the 2008 rules of eligibility, I have a qualifiying event to add my spouse to my benefits. Under the 2009 rules of eligibility, my marriage is no longer recognized by my company’s benefits package. Does that mean my spouse would be dropped from my 2009 coverage? Most likely. How shitty is that!?
That’s all kinds of lame sauce!