Long-Term Care Benefits

CalPERS offers a comprehensive program of long-term care benefits to help you plan for the high cost of long-term care services. The CalPERS Long-Term Care Program is designed specifically for California public employees, retirees, and their extended family members.

All California public employees, retirees, their spouses, parents, parents-in-law, and adult siblings are eligible for the CalPERS Long-Term Care Program. Those eligible to apply must be between the ages of 18 to 79. This includes members of CalPERS, teachers, school employees, University of California, and California State University employees and retirees, county and city employees and retirees, judges, legislators, and all other California public employees and retirees. Members of the Program can receive benefits anywhere in the nation.

A catastrophic accident or disability can occur at any age and conventional health plans do not provide extended care. CalPERS offers three plan options:

• Comprehensive
• Facilities Only
• Partnership

Each plan option offers a variety of daily benefit and total coverage amounts and flexibility on how the benefits are used.

You can find more detailed information on benefits in the For Members or For Employers area.

Dated: 09-21-2009