New County Employee Benefits

Welcome to Multnomah County

If you are new to having benefit coverage, these resources may be helpful:

• Choosing Your Health Plan 

• Detailed information on medical/dental coverage (plan booklets, summaries of benefit coverages) can be found on individual plan pages: 

  • Kaiser Plan (medical + vision, dental)

  • Moda Plan (medical + vision, dental. Vision is not included in the Major Medical plan)

  • Willamette Dental

• Medical & Dental Comparison Charts and Cost Tables

You can contact us at any point with questions by email at employee.benefits@multco.us or by voicemail at 503-99-3477.

To discuss your benefit options in your preferred language, please contact us to schedule a meeting with a Linguava interpreter.

Benefits by Bargaining Unit or Employee Group

While Multnomah County plans are very similar across employee groups, there are a few differences. Select your employee group below to review the specific benefits available to you: 

• AFSCME Local 88 Employee Benefits

• Dentists Employee Benefits

• DSA Employee Benefits

• Elected Official Employee Benefits

• FOPPO Employee Benefits

• IBEW Employee Benefits

• IUOE Employee Benefits

• IUPAT Employee Benefits

• JCSS Employee Benefits

• MCCDA Employee Benefits

• MCDAI Employee Benefits

• Non-Represented & Elected Official Staff Employee Benefits

• ONA Employee Benefits

• Pharmacists Employee Benefits

• Physicians Employee Benefits

• Prosecuting Attorneys Employee Benefits

New Hire Benefit Enrollment in Workday

In Workday, you will select your desired medical/dental coverage, optional plans, and assign your life insurance beneficiary or beneficiaries. You must enroll within 31 days of hire or you will be enrolled in the default Moda plan/s as determined by your employee group and FTE.  

1. Look in your Workday inbox for your Benefit task. It will be labeled “Benefit Change: New Hire” or “Benefit Change: Employment Status Change to Regular.” If you are a rehire and do not have a benefit task, please reach out to us. 
2. Click on the Let’s Get Started button. 
3. Select Manage to choose the plans you want to enroll in. 
4. If you are enrolling a spouse or domestic partner, you must submit this short online form:  Affidavit of Marriage or Domestic Partnership. Note: This form cannot be submitted prior to your first day. On or soon after your first day, you will be sent a reminder email if this form hasn’t been submitted.
   • Review our Domestic Partners & Your Benefits page for important information about the significant costs to adding a non IRS-eligible dependent to your plans.
5. If you have other qualifying medical coverage, you may opt out of enrolling in County medical coverage and will instead receive a credit in lieu of coverage. 
   • You must submit this online form: Opt Out Affidavit.
   • Examples of qualifying coverage include: Medicare, Medicaid (OHP & Apple Health), VA coverage, TriCare coverage, coverage through a parent or spouse, and other large group or employer sponsored coverage. 
   • Marketplace coverage is not qualifying coverage. 
   • If your other coverage ends mid-year, you do not have to wait until open enrollment to enroll in a County medical plan. Contact us as soon as you know your coverage will be ending for direction.

Benefits start on the first of the month on or following Workday enrollment and submission of all required affidavits. 

Optional/Supplemental benefit plans

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) 

An FSA reduces your tax burden and increases your purchasing power for eligible expenses. Multnomah County offers the following types of Flexible Spending Accounts:

• Medical FSA - Used for covered medical, dental, and vision expenses.

• Dependent Care (DCAP) FSA - Used for dependent care expenses such as childcare, preschool, afterschool programs, or eldercare.

• Transportation Reimbursement Plan (TRP) FSA - Used for eligible parking or transit commuting expenses.

• Detailed information on Flexible Spending Accounts.

Enroll using Workday as part of your Benefit Change - New Hire or Employment Status to Regular task.

Short-Term Disability (STD)

This coverage provides partial salary replacement after 31 days of a date of disability. Some employee groups have County-paid coverage and other groups can self-enroll. Groups eligible to self-enroll are full-time employees in these groups: Local 88, IUPAT, MCCDA, MCDAI, DSA, FOPPO, JCSS, and ONA.

Note: Paid Leave Oregon claims can impact the benefit of this coverage. Check with leave.information@multco.us about your specific circumstance. 

Long Term Care Insurance (LTC) 

Eligible employee groups: Local 88, Physicians, Pharmacists, Dentists, MCCDA, MCDAI, ONA, and Non-Represented employee groups. 

• LTC Insurance provides coverage if you need long term care at home, in assisted living or at a nursing facility.

• You will apply for this coverage outside of Workday - contact us!

• You can apply for LTC at any time, but are guaranteed approval up to $175,000 if submitted within 31 days of hire.

• Visit our LTC portal for more details.

Other Benefit Contacts

• Department HR or Your Manager: if you have questions about your employee group, step or COLA pay increases. Your department HR can also answer questions about your paid time off banks (sick, vacation, holiday, etc). However, if your paid time off question is related to a leave of absence, please contact leave.information@multco.us. 
• PERS - Contact pers@multco.us
• Deferred Compensation/457b plan/VOYA - Contact deferred.comp@multco.us if you have questions about retirement savings