{"id":9420,"date":"2024-02-22T14:50:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T19:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2024-02-22T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T20:11:36","slug":"dental-stipend-update-2-22-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/articles\/news\/dental-stipend-update-2-22-24\/","title":{"rendered":"First $400 dental stipend to be paid next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9413 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/400-Dental-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"$400 Dental Stipend\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/400-Dental-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/400-Dental.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) has released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osc.ny.gov\/state-agencies\/payroll-bulletins\/state-agencies\/2204-public-employees-federation-pef-2023-dental-stipend\">Payroll Bulletin 2204<\/a> providing information about the payment of the 2023 $400 dental stipend secured by the 2023-2026 PEF\/State Agreement. A side letter in the contract provides for a $400 payment each fiscal year to eligible PS&amp;T members until the State enters into a new dental services contract.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p2\"><strong>Payments will be in checks dated as follows:<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p2\">Administration Payroll: Effective July 28, 2023, check dated March 13, 2024.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p2\">Institution Payroll: Effective July 28, 2023, check dated March 21, 2024<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p2\">To be eligible, employees must have been in the PS&amp;T unit and enrolled in the NYSHIP Dental Plan having completed the applicable waiting period on July 28, 2023. (This is the ratification date for the 2023-2026 PEF\/State Agreement.)<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p2\"><em>Please note that this $400 is the dental stipend for the 2023-2024 fiscal year. The payment for the 2024-2025 fiscal year will be based on those enrolled in the NYSHIP Dental Plan and having completed the applicable waiting period on April 1, 2024.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_p2\">Please direct any questions about this payment to your PEF Field Representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) has released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osc.ny.gov\/state-agencies\/payroll-bulletins\/state-agencies\/2204-public-employees-federation-pef-2023-dental-stipend\">Payroll Bulletin 2204<\/a> providing information about the payment of the 2023 $400 dental stipend secured by the 2023-2026 PEF\/State Agreement&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,482,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contract","category-health-benefits","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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