Inyo County California

California’s Paid Family Leave program benefits are available for employees to care for a seriously ill family member, to bond with a new child, or to participate in a qualifying military event.

• Provides up to eight weeks of partial-wage-replacement benefits. Leave doesn’t have to be taken all at once.
• Provides approximately 70 to 90 percent of your weekly salary.
• Funded through a qualifying voluntary plan paid into in the past 5 to 18 months.
• To bond with a new child, leave can be taken anytime within the first 12 months of a child entering your family.

To qualify for Paid Family Leave benefits, you must:

• Take time off from work to care for a seriously ill family member, to bond with a new child or to participate in a qualifying military event.
• Be covered by a voluntary plan in lieu of State Disability Insurance.
• Have earned at least $300 in the past 5 to 18 months.
• Submit your claim no later than 41 days after you begin your family leave. 

Benefits are 70 to 90 percent of your highest quarterly earnings 5 to 18 months before your claim begins.

Inyo County's Short Term Disability program benefits are available for employees who unable to work due to non-work-related illness, injury or pregnancy.

• Provides partial-wage-replacement benefits. Leave doesn’t have to be taken all at once.
• Provides approximately 70 to 90 percent of your weekly salary.
• Funded through our qualifying voluntary plan

Benefits are 70 to 90 percent of your highest quarterly earnings 5 to 18 months before your claim begins.

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a federal law that provides eligible employees with job-protected leave for qualifying family and medical reasons. FMLA is NOT paid leave. However, when the employee is eligible, FMLA can be used along with Paid Family Leave or Short Term Disability.

California Family Rights Act (CFRA) provides most employees in California with the right to take up to 12 weeks off work to care for themselves or their family members with a serious health condition, or to bond with a new child. CFRA is NOT paid leave. However, when the employee is eligible, CFRA can be used along with Paid Family Leave or Short Term Disability.

Eligible employees can take up to 12 workweeks of FMLA/CFRA leave in a 12-month period for:

• The birth, adoption or foster placement of a child with you
• Your serious mental or physical health condition that makes you unable to work
• To care for your spouse, child or parent with a serious mental or physical health condition
• Certain qualifying reasons related to the foreign deployment of your spouse, child or parent who is a military servicemember.

You are an eligible employee if all of the following apply:

• You work for a covered employer
• You have worked for your employer at least 12 months
• You have at least 1,250 hours of service for your employer during the 12 months before your leave

2024 Summary of Providers, Benefits & Coverage

2024 Blue Shield

• EPO Evidence of Coverage
• EPO Summary of Benefits & Coverage

2024 PERS

• PERS Gold Evidence of Coverage
• PERS Gold Summary of Benefits & Coverage
• PERS Platinum Evidence of Coverage
• PERS Platinum Summary of Benefits & Coverage

2024 PORAC

• PORAC Evidence of Coverage
• PORAC Summary of Benefits & Coverage
• PORAC Evidence of Coverage (Non-CA)
• PORAC Summary of Benefits & Coverage (Non-CA)