Dental Plan Offers Waiting Period Flexibility

Assurant Employee Benefits will make the waiting periods for the Freedom Preferred voluntary dental plan easier to adjust.

Assurant Employee Benefits, Kansas City, Mo., a unit of Assurant Inc., New York, says employer groups with plan participation levels of 50% now can offer 0-month or 6-month timely waiting periods for both basic and major dental services as well as the old 12-month and 24-month waiting period options.

The option to eliminate or shorten waiting periods applies to employees who enroll during the initial open enrollment or in some other timely fashion.