DAS continues its pursuit of a time tracking system called Kronos.  While the rest of Connecticut fights for minimal financial support, employees are being asked to increase thier contributions to support their benefits, many agencies are seeing their funding dwindle, and the State budget deficit is approach $350 million, DAS continues its quest to squander millions on a time-tracking system that no one wants.  Quite simply, this waste of money should be scrapped.  In these economic times, "wants" are secondary to "needs" and this is a want, not a need.  But since it continues to move forward

The Health Insurance Open Enrollment period will run from May 7th through June 3rd of 2018.  The schedule of on-site open enrollment fairs has been released.  Remember, if you need to drop someone from your insurance, you must do it now.   The most common mistake is failure to remove a recent ex-spouse; they should be removed from coverage unless otherwise ordered by a court.  Children are covered until age 26 on medical and age 19 on dental (unless disabled).

The State Employee Healthcare plan has undergone quite a number of changes over recent years and is becoming a bit difficult to follow. 

Normally, the most recent payperiod would have included longevity payments for those who qualify.  However, in accordance with SEBAC2017, the April longevity payments are delayed until July.

This July we will start to see our paychecks return to normal in many ways: the furlough payments will cease in June, the retro-active pension withdrawals will cease in June, the April longevity will be paid in July, and members will receive the $1,000 lump payment or the $2,000 lump payment (depending on your step placement).  The October Longevity payment will be on time as will the January TopStepPayment

A&R has a proud and longstanding tradition of awarding scholarships to qualifying children of A&R or children of former A&R members who are now members of the A&R Retiree Chapter.  This year's scholarship winners:

HARRY ZILBER AWARD – 1 IN THE AMOUNT OF $2500

Jenny Hawkins
Parent: Susanne Hawkins, DAS, Contract Specialist

POST SECONDARY SCHOLARSHIPS – 5 IN THE AMOUNT OF $1500

Signe Lee
Parent: Grace Jiang, DOI, Insurance Accredited Financial Examiner

Reeya Khurana
Parent: Sanjeev Khurana, DRS, Revenue Examiner 3

Jenna Mazza
Parent: Paul Mazza, DOT, Associate Accounts Examiner

Angela Cappelli
Parent: Anne

Thursday April 26th is a day of unity, it is also the day of the A&R Convention.  we are hoping all A&R employees will join together and wear blue on Thursday 4/26/18 as a show of solidarity. 

Just a reminder that there is currently an on-line election for A&R Constitutional Amendments.  The voting began on April 5th and ends at 11:59pm on April 25th.  The proposed amendments where passed by committee and then the RA and still require a vote of the membership, so please review and cast your ballot.
 

Voting credentials (username/password) were sent by mail in early April.  If you lost or misplaced your credentials, please contact the A&R office via email at office@andr.org and we will notify the voting administrator (BigPulse) to re-send your credentials.

Also, a reminder that the A&R