USWA Local 831 Labor Union

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Gloria Gravely email - ggravely@usw831.org Ricky Austin email - raustin@usw831.org

Pension & Insurance Tips Accident & Sickness Benefits Va. State Workers Compensation Insurance Web Links & phone numbers 2008 Express Scripts Formulary List Employee Assistance Program Printable Goodyear Premium Payment Coupon

Pension & Insurance Tips

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company does not have life insurance on your spouse or children. Your spouse or children are only covered if you are enrolled in the optional insurance (Metlife) and you have designated the amount of coverage you want on your spouse and children. Your children can only have life insurance till age 19.

Any employee that is out of work and is receiving Accident & Sickness (A&S) benefits or State Workers Compensation should make sure they keep their doctor coverage up to date. If your doctor does not cover you, you will not receive a benefit.

You will have a $50 co-pay when you use the emergency room services and not admitted to the hospital.

If you have medical bills that have not been paid after three to four months, you need to contact the provider to see if claim or claims were filed properly. In some cases the provider will file claims with the wrong carrier, if this happens it will be noted on your Explanation of Benefits (EOB). Other times it could be an ineligible dependant, service not covered by the plan, wrong CPI codes etc, etc.
Don't let the bill linger on until the provider turns it over to a collection agency. Once this happens it is hard to get that process turned around.

If you have an in-plant accident or illness and you must visit the plant hospital, what ever you report to the nurses, be sure you tell your doctor or any other health care provider the very same thing.
A Worker's Compensation claim can be lost in the first 5 minutes at the work site or the first 5 minutes at the doctor's office.

Accident & Sickness Benefits
Printable A & S Info including Liberty Mutual Authorization Release Card
   Benefits will be paid because of a disabling accident, sickness or pregnancy, while under the care of a doctor licensed to practice medicine. Benefits are payable from:

(i)                  the first day of disability due to an accident or occupational illness, or

(ii)                the eighth day of disability due to a non-occupational sickness or pregnancy, or

(a)    the first day of hospital confinement prior to the eighth day, or

(b)   the first day on which an employee under goes a surgical procedure for which a benefit is payable under the program, provided the employee has not worked the day of the surgery.

   If you have surgery on your off day, you are entitled to A & S benefits for that day and any additional day or days that a doctor licensed to practiced medicine provides coverage.

Virginia State Workers' Compensation

Making a claim for Workers Compensation Benefits

   You must protect your claim for workers' compensation benefits. It is your responsibility to notify the Industrial Commission of your claim and your responsibility to file your claim within the time limitations. Statue of limitations is two years.

   You must file your claim with the Industrial Commission within the time limits, even if your employer filed an accident report and even if your employer is making weekly compensation benefits or paying medical expenses.

   Failure to give notice within 30 days from the date of your accident or 60 days from the date of your occupational disease was diagnosed may affect your right to benefits.

   Report all accidents, even if the injury seems minor. A small injury can develop into a serious problem.

Pension & Benefit Contacts

Below are links to web sites and phone numbers of our Benefit Providers
to further assist our Active and Retired members.

Goodyear Ben-Phone System
(To verify benefits)
1-800-334-9395

BlueCross/Blueshield Anthem
Active & Retirees WITH OUT Medicare
1-800-792-7484
Retirees WITH Medicare
1-866-524-2285
Pre-certification 1-866-776-4793
To find a doctor or hospital
1-800-810-2583

Mail Order Prescriptions
Click on the link above to order over the internet and track your mail order.
1-800-772-3980

Vision Care Benefit Plan
Click on the Link above, put in our Code Number 40657 and Zip Code of the area of the provider you.
1-800-334-7591

Delta Dental
Hourly Group Number 5145
1-800-524-0149
Web Site Link

JPMorgan
( Savings Plan )
1-800-345-2345
Web Site Link

All Calls are confidential
1-800-227-6007
Web Site Link

Liberty Mutual (A&S Program)
1-866-574-4252
Web Site Link

Minnesota Mutual
1-800-660-2584
Web Site Link

Social Security Disability Consultants
1-800-374-9950
Web Site Link

Employee Assistance Program
At some point and time, each and everyone of us has or will experience problems that consume our every thought.
Personal problems cause absenteeism, tardiness, higher accident rates and faulty decision making. EAP (Employee Assistance Program) is a resource that all employees and their families can turn to for help with any problem imaginable.
In the past, alcoholism and drug abuse were the engines that drove the EAP's. Today, we deal with a variety of impediments--work performance, personal life purposes, mental illness, depression, martial problems, adolescent behavioral issues, etc. Helping employees find help is far less costly than allowing personal problems to slowly destroy them, their family, friends or employment.

The USWA/Goodyear Employee Assistance Program provides confidential help to:

Address personal and family concerns that impact health, well being or job performance.
Obtain information and support in dealing with emotional problems, depression, alcoholism, drug dependency or other serious concerns.
Obtain counseling or treatment services for yourself and immediate family members.
These services are available seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

Contact your EAP Coordinator, Courtney L. Dixon.
Courtney L. Dixon
[434] 791- 9155 Plant
[336] 388-5537 Union Hall
[434] 766-1393 Pager
email - cdixon@usw831.org

	Goodyear Ben-Phone System (To verify benefits) 1-800-334-9395
	BlueCross/Blueshield Anthem Active & Retirees WITH OUT Medicare 1-800-792-7484 Retirees WITH Medicare 1-866-524-2285 Pre-certification 1-866-776-4793 To find a doctor or hospital 1-800-810-2583
	Mail Order Prescriptions Click on the link above to order over the internet and track your mail order. 1-800-772-3980
	Vision Care Benefit Plan Click on the Link above, put in our Code Number 40657 and Zip Code of the area of the provider you. 1-800-334-7591
	Delta Dental Hourly Group Number 5145 1-800-524-0149 Web Site Link
	JPMorgan ( Savings Plan ) 1-800-345-2345 Web Site Link
	All Calls are confidential 1-800-227-6007 Web Site Link
	Liberty Mutual (A&S Program) 1-866-574-4252 Web Site Link
	Minnesota Mutual 1-800-660-2584 Web Site Link
	Social Security Disability Consultants 1-800-374-9950 Web Site Link