{"id":80,"date":"2025-09-05T15:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:01:55","slug":"benefits-during-fmla-leave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/time-absence\/fmla-and-pfml\/family-and-medical-leave-act-fmla\/benefits-during-fmla-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits during FMLA leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This page applies to all staff, academic personnel, and student employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If your leave is covered by FMLA or <a href=\"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/time-absence\/fmla-and-pfml\/paid-family-and-medical-leave\/\">PFML<\/a>, the University will continue to pay its employer portion of your health insurance. You will still be responsible for any portion of your benefits that you normally pay.<\/p>\n<h4>Benefits when FMLA leave is exhausted<\/h4>\n<p>Once your 12 weeks of FMLA is exhausted, if you are going to be absent from work for a full calendar month, the University will continue paying its portion of your health insurance if you remain in pay status for at least eight hours that month.<\/p>\n<p>To remain in pay status, you must do one of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work at least eight hours (must be medically cleared if leave is for a personal medical reason)<\/li>\n<li>Use at least eight hours of accrued time off (e.g., sick, vacation, discretionary, compensatory time off; holiday credit; or personal holiday)<\/li>\n<li>For faculty, maintain a .05 appointment percent (must be medically cleared if leave is for a personal medical reason)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to continue your benefits coverage while on FMLA leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions\/692"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}