Coverage for Fully Disabled or Retired Employees and Eligible Family Members, or the Spouse/Same-Sex Domestic Partner and Children of Deceased Employees

Full-time Employees who are totally disabled or retired and who at the time disability began or at the time of retirement had been continuously employed by the University for three (3) years shall receive the tuition remission benefits for themselves and eligible family members which would have been theirs had the Employee not become disabled or retired.

The surviving spouse/same-sex domestic partner who does not remarry and the eligible children of a deceased full-time Employee, who at the time of death had been continuously employed by the University for at least three (3) years, shall receive the tuition remission benefits which would have been theirs had the Employee not died.

The words "tuition remission benefits which would have been theirs" means the tuition benefits available at the time application for such benefits is made, not the tuition remission benefits in effect at the time of death, disability or retirement.