Your Health Care Benefits
The Board of Trustees is pleased to welcome you to the new Health Care benefits
website for the Southern California Soft Drink Industry and Teamsters Health and
Welfare Fund. The medical plan options (including prescription drugs), along with
the Dental Plan, Vision Plan and AD&D benefits are listed below.
If you are a retired Employee, you and your Dependents will be eligible for the
Hospital-Medical benefit and Prescription Drug programs if you meet the eligibility
requirements and these benefits are provided under the terms of the current Collective
Bargaining Agreement between your last Employer and your Union which covers the
position in which you were formerly employed, AND for which your last Employer specifically
contributes to the Trust Fund.
Medical Benefits
The Southern California Soft Drink Industry and Teamsters Health and Welfare Fund
provides Benefit Programs for Active Employees and their Dependents as well as Benefit
Programs for Retired Employees and their Dependents.
Prescription Benefits
The Southern California Soft Drink Industry and Teamsters Health and Welfare Trust
Fund maintains this Prescription Drug Plan to help cover many of the costs of your
family’s Prescription Drug needs. The Trust Fund contracts with Optum Rx to provide
a network of pharmacies from which you may obtain your prescriptions.
Dental Benefits
The Southern California Soft Drink Industry and Teamsters Health and Welfare Trust
Fund offers you a choice of dental care programs, Liberty Dental, - a PREPAID DENTAL
PLAN, which requires you to select a Dental Office which is part of the Liberty
Dental Plan, or an INDEMNITY DENTAL PLAN, which permits you to go to any Dentist
of your choice or a preferred provider dentist in the Anthem Blue Cross network.
Vision
Benefits
The Vision Care Program is administered through a service agreement with Vision
Service Plan (VSP), which maintains a panel of over 14,000 vision care providers.
Life
Insurance
The Plan provides Death and Accidental Death and Dismemberment coverage for Employees
only. The Fund does not provide this coverage for your Dependents.