There have been some changes in the employee paid vision insurance plan sponsored by the CTU and the Coalition of Labor Organizations at Michigan State University (CLO).

Effective July 1, 2006, Michigan Employee Benefit Services (MEBS) will replace REDS as the third-party administrator of our prepaid vision insurance. (Click on the box to go the MEBS website.)

Current participants will see little change until their individual contracts end. The provisions of the plan will remain the same, and payroll deduction will continue. However, the deductions will now be sent to MEBS.

The SeeCOM vision plan, the only plan available in the past, will con-tinue to be available through MEBS under their Vision Care Direct or VCD option.

In addition to SeeCOM, Mebs offers a second plan, National Vision Administrators (NVA), to new and renewing participants.

For information on both plans and a comparison chart, visit the MEBS website (www.mebs.com).

Open enrollment is available through the end of July 2006.

In addition to increasing our options in choosing a vision program, the move to MEBS will also alleviate the administrative work that the CTU office took on when we offered the plan.