{"id":460,"date":"2022-11-01T17:10:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/?p=460"},"modified":"2022-11-01T17:10:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:10:42","slug":"productivity-enhancement-program-pep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/2022\/11\/01\/productivity-enhancement-program-pep\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The time is now! Open enrollment for the Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP) starts November 1 and continues through December 12!\u00a0 The PEP program provides a means by which eligible employees \u2013 generally, NYSHIP enrollees who earn vacation and currently make less than $103,433 a year \u2013 may cash in previously accrued vacation days for a bi-weekly credit to reduce the cost of their health insurance premiums.\u00a0The number of days that may be forfeited to receive this credit varies based on income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Full-time employees with an annual salary at or below $72,366 who enroll in PEP for 2023 will forfeit either three days or six days of annual leave in return for a credit of up to $600 or $1,200 that will be used to reduce the employee share of NYSHIP premiums deducted from paychecks in 2023.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Full-time employees with an annual salary above $72,366 and below $103,413 who enroll in PEP for 2023 will forfeit either two days or four days of annual leave in return for a credit of up to $600 or $1,200 that will be used to reduce the employee share of NYSHIP premiums deducted from paychecks in 2023.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Benefits-eligible part-time employees with annualized salaries within the above ranges, who earn vacation and who choose to enroll in PEP will forfeit prorated days of annual leave and receive a prorated credit toward their health insurance premiums based on their payroll percentage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An email was sent to all employees by Laura Decker on Oct. 28, with ESC-specific information on PEP.  Please also see the announcements on the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.esc.edu\/HumanResources\/Pages\/default.aspx\">HR website in MyESC<\/a> for more details and the correct form to submit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time is now! Open enrollment for the Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP) starts November 1 and continues through December 12!\u00a0 The PEP program provides a means by which eligible employees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benefits","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/esc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}