Regular, full-time employees working 30 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits effective immediately on their date of hire or date of eligibility.

Part-time employees, interns, independent contractors, consultants, or temporary agency workers are not eligible for Cision benefits even if the employee works 30 or more hours a week on an infrequent or short-term basis.

When Do Benefits Begin?

New hire benefits are effective immediately on date of hire. New employees have 31 days from the date of hire to enroll in benefits. Regardless of which date within that window employees elect benefits, the effective date will always be the date of hire.

When Do Benefits End?

Coverage ends when you and/or your dependents become ineligible for benefits. Coverage under Cision’s health and welfare benefits generally ends at midnight on the last day of employment or eligibility in which one or more of the following occurs:

• Your employment ends.
• Your eligibility ends.
• Cision discontinues offering the coverage.
• You fail to make any required contributions.

Dependent coverage ends at midnight on the day that one or more of the following occurs:

• Your eligibility ends.
• The dependent no longer meets the eligibility requirements.
• You remove the dependent during Open Enrollment or in connection with a qualified family status change event.

Dependent coverage ends at midnight on the last day of the month in which your dependent child turns 26.

Who Can I Cover?

We take pride in giving our employees benefits that make life better.

While we’re all part of the Cision family, only the following family members can be covered under Cision benefits by an eligible employee:

• Spouses/domestic partners
• Children and/or a spouse’s/domestic partner’s children under the age of 26 (or over the age of 26 and solely dependent on you for support due to a mental or physical disability)

Dependent children include:

• Natural children
• Stepchildren
• Adopted children including those placed with you for adoption
• Foster children
• Children you are responsible for under a qualified medical support order or court order
• Grandchildren in your legal custody

You’ll need to share your dependents’ Social Security numbers (SSNs) when you enroll them in benefits, so be sure to have those on hand.

When Can I Enroll?

Because your payroll contributions for insurance are made on a pretax basis, you can only make benefit changes during the annual open enrollment period, unless you have a Qualified Family Status Change. You have 31 days from the date of your qualifying life event to make changes to your benefits. Follow these links for life event details and how to enroll.