GENERAL INFORMATION

The County of Los Angeles recognizes excellence and performance by providing comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to its employees. Emphasis is directed toward offering you and your family a variety of benefits that help meet your needs and balance your career with your personal life. The main theme of all of the programs is flexibility. These types of programs are made possible through Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code and allows you to choose between nontaxable benefits, taxable cash and the best plan for you and your family. In addition, the County pays you a monthly “benefit allowance” to use to pay for these benefits.

The County offers four cafeteria benefit plans. Each plan has different benefits and rates. To learn more about the cafeteria plans and the benefits offered through each plan, click on the “Flexible Benefits Plans” to the left of this page.

1. Choices Benefit Plan - for employees represented by the Coalition of County Unions.

2. Options Benefit Plan - for employees represented by SEIU Local 721.

3. MegaFlex Benefit Plan - for eligible non-represented employees.

4. Flexible Benefit Plan - for eligible non-represented employees.

As a participant of one of the above plans, you may elect the following benefits:

Medical Coverage

Dental Coverage

Group Term Life Insurance

Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance

Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts

Medical Coverage Protection (Long-Term Disability Health Insurance)

Short-Term Disability – for MegaFlex participants only

Long-Term Disability – for MegaFlex participants only

Part-time employees (except workers in student positions) who work an average of 30 hours or more per week during a period of three consecutive months may be eligible to enroll in a County medical plan. To learn more about the benefits offered to eligible part-time employees, contact your departmental personnel office.

Depending upon your employment status, the County provides the following retirement plans:

Defined Benefit Retirement Plans (Plans A,B,C,D,E) - to learn more about these plans, call LACERA at (800) 786-6464.

Defined Contribution Retirement Plans – The County offers three supplemental retirement plans. Two are voluntary plans for full-time permanent employees and one is mandatory for all temporary, part-time and seasonal employees. These plans are governed by IRS code Section 401K and 457. To learn more about these plans, call Great-West Retirement Services ® at (800) 947-0845.

The two voluntary supplemental retirement plans are:
Deferred Compensation & Thrift Plan (Horizions, 457 plan) for all full-time permanent employees.
Savings Plan (401k) for non-represented employees.
The one mandatory supplemental retirement plan is:

Pension Savings Plan (457 plan) for all part-time, temporary and seasonal employees.