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For the 2020 calendar year, any employee may elect, increase, or decrease their contribution one time outside of Open Enrollment or a qualifying event. |
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OverviewThe Child-Care Benefit is available to Reliant missionaries and employees who need or wish to provide child care for a dependent. Any Reliant employee may elect this benefit (it doesn't matter how many hours you are employed per week by Reliant), as long as the child care costs the employee is incurring and seeking to reimburse from the plan are related to the employee and his/her spouse working (or seeking employment). This benefit is part of Reliant's Cafeteria Plan, which allows pre-tax wages to be used for certain benefits. Some of the IRS requirements to utilize the Child-Care benefit include:
How Do I Utilize This Benefit?In order to take part in the benefit, you must enroll in the benefit annually during Open Enrollment or at the time of a qualifying event. If you miss Open Enrollment, you may submit a Cafeteria Form by December 20 to affect the following year. These qualifying events include birth, adoption or foster placement, the return to work of either parents or a significant change in income. When the Child-Care Benefit is chosen, you select an amount to be deducted from your pre-tax earnings each paycheck for the entire year.
If you desire to elect the Child-Care Benefit, you will need to enroll using the form linked to below to sign up for your Child-Care Benefit employee contribution. How Does This Benefit Help Me?
How Long Does My Election of This Benefit Last?You may not make any changes to your contribution until the next open-enrollment period. This contribution remains in effect even if your employment becomes benefits ineligible. However, a change in employment or income affecting you or your spouse is a qualifying event. If there is a change, you must reach out to payroll@reliant.org to seek a change to your contribution. Excess contributions not used for this year's child-care reimbursements will be distributed to all participants in the child-care plan based on % of the contribution. Your unused contributions will not be returned individually to you, so set your contribution modestly. FAQ |
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Child-care reimbursements are generally paid out in the 20th reimbursement batch. Reliant waits until payroll is processed and posted to determine if there are sufficient funds in the employee's child-care account to pay a reimbursement. |
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No, child-care reimbursements are not part of the order of pay. The monthly child-care election is deducted from your payroll pre-tax. Therefore, a child-care reimbursement can still be paid even if you are in a back pay situation. There just needs to be sufficient funds in the child-care account to pay the reimbursement. |
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Child-care reimbursement is available for child-care services while you and your spouse ,if you are married, are either working or looking for employment. This can be for child-care services during the day or child-care services needed at night, as we know sometimes missionaries have non-traditional work hours. | ||||
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Child-care reimbursements must be paid in full amounts, just like reimbursements. If your July child-care reimbursement is for $600 and there is only $500 in your child-care account, Reliant would wait to pay the reimbursement until the account has sufficient funds to pay the full reimbursement. However, we do allow a missionary to submit a large reimbursement but then request it be paid out at a lower amount (see below). |
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Full Dependent Care PolicyEnrollment Form
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Reimbursement instructions for monthly child-care expenses
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