Family Member Verification for Benefits

• Your legally married spouse
• Certified (through RIT) Domestic Partner
• The child of the employee or the employee’s spouse who is under age 26
• The child of the employee’s domestic partner who is under age 26 (NOTE: if the child is not claimed as a dependent on the employee’s federal income tax return, this benefit will be taxable)
• The foster child (under age 18) of the employee, defined as an individual who is placed with the employee by an authorized placement agency or by judgment decree, or other court order
• Any other child who is under age 26, and
  • for whom the employee is the legal guardian or custodian, and
  • who resides in the employee’s home, and
  • who is claimed as a tax dependent on the employee’s federal income tax return

Legally married spouse and certified (by RIT) domestic partner can be covered under the Dependent Spouse Life and/or Spouse AD&D insurance 

A child of the employee, an employee’s spouse or domestic partner who is under age 26 and unmarried (does not necessarily have to be a tax dependent) can be covered under the Child Life and/or Child AD&D.

NOTE: If an employee and their spouse/domestic partner are both eligible for dependent life and AD&D, only one can only one can cover the children for Child Life and AD&D. An employee who is eligible for Basic Life through RIT cannot be covered under another employee's spouse life and AD&D coverage. 

Tuition Waiver

• Your legally married spouse or certified (by RIT) domestic partner
• The child of the employee, the employee’s spouse, or the employee’s domestic partner who is under age 30
• Any other child who is under age 30, and
  • for whom the employee is the legal guardian or custodian, and
  • has been the legal guardian or custodian for at least three years prior to the date on which the child begins using the educational benefit, and
  • who resides in the employee’s home, and
  • who is claimed as a tax dependent on the employee’s federal income tax return.

NOTE: If a child has matriculated in a program before the age of 30, he/she would be eligible for Tuition Waiver to complete that same degree program started (not a different program) through the academic quarter in which the child attains age of 35. There will be no Tuition Waiver available beyond age 35.

Tuition Exchange and Tuition Scholarship

• The child of the employee, the employee’s spouse, or the employee’s domestic partner who is under age 30
• Any other child who is under age 30, and
  • for whom the employee is the legal guardian or custodian, and
  • has been the legal guardian or custodian for at least three years prior to the date on which the child begins using the educational benefit, and
  • who resides in the employee’s home, and
  • who is claimed as a tax dependent on the employee’s federal income tax return.

• Marriage certificate issued by local government or by the religious institution where married (NOTE: by submitting a marriage certificate, you are attesting that you continue to be legally married to your spouse and that you are not divorced) OR
• Top half of your most recent federal income tax form identifying employee-spouse relationship

An approved RIT Affidavit of Domestic Partnership form. 

• The child's birth certificate that includes parent-employee name or
• the child's birth certificate without parent-employee name AND Supplemental Information verification form AND supplemental document (e.g., tax return showing child’s name) or Immigration papers that identify employee-child relationship

Birth certificate that includes adoptive parent-employee name or Certified court approved adoption papers with adoptive parent-employee name or Placement letter from court/adoption agency with parent-employee name

Certified court ordered guardianship papers with guardian-employee name

NOTE: There are two steps: proof that child is your spouse’s child and proof that the child’s parent is your spouse.

Birth certificate that includes employee’s spouse’s name
or
Birth certificate without employee’s spouse’s name AND Supplemental Information verification form AND supplemental document (e.g., tax return showing child’s name)

AND

Marriage certificate issued by local government or by the religious institution where married
NOTE: by submitting a marriage certificate, you are attesting that you continue to be legally married to your spouse and that you are not divorced)
or
Top half of your federal income tax form identifying employee-spouse relationship

In addition to the verification information described above, you must also provide the Social Security disability award.