At the Tuesday Steering Committee meeting, some faculty voiced their opinions and objections to a requirement for all staff to provide documents verifying dependents on university health plans.
Since the Jan. 3 deadline to send in all the required materials, 132 faculty have been identified as having dependents which did not meet criteria to be covered under the MSU health care plan, Faculty Senate Chairman and Steering Committee Chairman John Powell said at the meeting.
The goal of the verification process was to make sure all dependents, which could include spouses or children, meet the requirements.
Dependent children must be U.S. citizens or in the process of applying for citizenship and must either be biological or adopted, among other requirements.
Details were not released on why the 132 faculty did not have adequate documentation of their dependents.
He said a report will be made available at a later time summarizing all the findings from the verification process.
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