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3% parents of employees.
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All together, over 18% of the 61,000 eligible state employees in 2000 either purchased coverage for themselves or for their spouses or parents. This represented the largest initial employee enrollment of any public employer-sponsored group long-term care insurance plan, up to that time.
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| BACKGROUND |
| July 1996 |
Chapter 384, section 8 of 1996 Laws of Minnesota enacted, requiring the Minnesota Department of Employee Relations (DOER) to study the feasibility of offering group long-term care insurance. At the same time, the Minnesota Department of Human Services begins Project 2030 to help Minnesotans prepare for the impacts of the aging population.
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| Jan. 1996 |
DOER begins working with advisory committee and consultant to develop plan design.
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| May 1999 |
Enabling law, Minnesota Statutes §43A.318, enacted.
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| May 2000 |
DOER selects CNA from a field of 12 insurers to underwrite the plan.
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| Oct. 1 - Nov. 1 2000 |
DOER conducts initial enrollment for employees.
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| May 2001 |
Enabling law amended to include retirees and their spouses.
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| Oct. 2001 |
DOER starts enrollment of retirees and spouses in new retiree plan.
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| July 2004 |
Existing enrollees offered chance to buy additional inflation protection. |
| May 2005 |
DOER issues RFI to test market. Decides to stay with CNA. |
| June 2006 |
Second open enrollment held for employees. |
| June 2008 |
MN Department of Commerce approved some of the plan options of the M-Pel plan as being qualified for the Minnesota Long Term Care Partnership. |
| Sept. 2008 |
Existing enrollees offered chance to buy additional inflation protection. |
| Dec. 2008 |
All currently insured participants in the M-Pel plan who already had coverage that qualified for the MN Long Term Care Partnership were notified by mail of the qualification. |
| May 2010 |
Third open enrollment held for employees. |
