Group Prepaid Legal Service Plan
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What It Is Eligibility Features Plan Options Cost of Plan Implement A Plan |
What It IsThe NYSUT Member Benefits Trust-endorsed Group Prepaid Legal Service Plan is only available for purchase by local associations, their benefit funds, and employers. The Group Prepaid Legal Service Plan provides many legal services at no cost to the participant. It offers many of the same benefits as the Group Access Legal Service Plan plus additional benefits. The law firm of Feldman, Kramer & Monaco, P.C. has been the service provider for the Group Legal Service Plan since 1980 and acts as the Legal Plan’s National Legal Office. Their firm has grown from 5 attorneys to more than 40 attorneys during these past 20 years, and the network of participating referral attorneys now exceeds 500 firms in New York state and several hundred firms in other jurisdictions across America. The law firm of Feldman, Kramer & Monaco, P.C. has been honored by the largest, oldest and most prestigious law firm rating company, Martindale-Hubbell, which has awarded them the highest possible rating of "A-V". Several major newspapers and television news shows have featured exclusive stories on the firm and its unique delivery of cost-effective legal service plans. The Group Prepaid Legal Service Plan provided through Feldman, Kramer & Monaco, P.C. is a NYSUT Member Benefits Trust (Member Benefits)-endorsed program. Member Benefits has an expense reimbursement/endorsement arrangement of 15% of annual participation fees received for this program. All such payments to Member Benefits are used solely to defray the costs of administering its various programs and, where appropriate, to enhance them. Member Benefits acts as your advocate; please contact Member Benefits at (800) 626-8101 if you experience a problem with any endorsed program. Agency fee payers to NYSUT are eligible to participate in NYSUT Member Benefits Trust-endorsed programs.
EligibilityThe NYSUT Member Benefits Trust-endorsed Group Prepaid Legal Service Plan is only available for purchase by local associations, their benefit funds, and employers. The Prepaid Legal Service Plan covers all group participants, their spouses or domestic partners who are living with the Plan participant, and dependent children under 19. Dependent children to age 25 who are full-time students are eligible for some of the services provided by the Prepaid Plan.
FeaturesThe Prepaid Plan provides participants with these free legal benefits relating to personal legal matters. Contact is via a toll-free number to the National Legal Office of Feldman, Kramer & Monaco, P.C:
If any Prepaid Plan benefit allowance is exhausted, the Plan attorney will bill at a reduced hourly rate ($125 an hour) for all time needed to conclude the matter.
Plan OptionsAn optional Elder Law Rider can be purchased for the Prepaid Legal Service Plan, which provides access to a national panel of attorneys who specialize in elder and health law, estate planning, wills, trusts, pre-nursing home planning, probate and conservatorship. Participants who use the services of Elder Law attorneys receive a 20% discount off their usual fees. The rider also provides one free Legal Security Package per participant or covered dependent per year. Package includes a Health Care Proxy, Living Will, Power of Attorney and Simple Will.
Cost of PlanThe Group Prepaid Legal Service Plan costs $55 per Plan participant per year.
Implement A PlanOnce the decision has been made to purchase the NYSUT Member Benefits Trust-endorsed Prepaid Legal Service Plan on a group basis, here’s what needs to be done to implement this plan:
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