Denver Department of Safety Fire Employee,
If you currently have insurance policies with Colonial Life, Police & Firemen’s Insurance Association, or Lone Star Insurance, and you are making premium payments through payroll deduction, please read this message.
The City recently identified that there is no contractual agreement between the City and the insurance companies named above which supports payroll deductions. As a result, the City is taking necessary and deliberate steps to bring the voluntary benefits programs into compliance.
Effective immediately, the City will no longer accept requests for payroll deductions for new members or for payroll deductions advanced by insurance carriers that do not have a contractual relationship with the City. However, payroll deductions related to premium payments with Colonial Life, Police and Firemen’s Insurance Association, or Lone Star Insurance for current employees will continue until at least June 2017 while the City works to remedy the issue.
Safety representatives from the active and retired, sworn and uniformed employee groups will be included in the remedy process, and the City will seek additional input from the unions and association.
In the beginning of the second quarter of 2017 you will receive additional communication regarding this issue. In the meantime, please contact Myra Simmons, HR Supervisor, at 720.913.3408 or SafetyHR@denvergov.org if you have any questions.
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