{"id":7984,"date":"2020-04-06T04:19:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T09:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2020-04-06T04:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T09:19:43","slug":"covid-19-changes-to-the-public-service-health-care-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=7984","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Changes to the Public Service Health Care Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Health-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Health-1.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Health-1-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Health-1-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Health-1-1024x538.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Due to COVID-19, PSAC has agreed with the employer to make some temporary amendments to the Public Service Health Care Plan, which will assist members in accessing the services that they need.<\/p>\n<p>These changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extension of the Emergency Benefit while travelling to 60 days from 40<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following changes will be made up until April 24, 2020:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any member can see a social worker and it will be covered under your psychological benefit (up to the regular annual maximum)<\/li>\n<li>You do not need a doctor\u2019s prescription to access physiotherapy or psychological services<\/li>\n<li>Dispensing limit for maintenance medication will allow members to get their medication sooner, if required, and potentially get a supply for more than the 100 days\u2019 limit which currently exists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full set of changes and further details can be seen here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/treasury-board-secretariat\/services\/benefit-plans\/health-care-plan\/information-notices\/covid-19-temporary-measures-public-service-health-care-plan.html\">https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/treasury-board-secretariat\/services\/benefit-plans\/health-care-plan\/information-notices\/covid-19-temporary-measures-public-service-health-care-plan.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We will continue to work on this situation and will meet with the Employer to potentially make further amendments to Plan during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>We are also planning a full set of negotiations for the Plan in the very near future.\u00a0\u00a0We will update members as those negotiations get going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to COVID-19, PSAC has agreed with the employer to make some temporary amendments to the Public Service Health Care Plan, which will assist members in accessing the services that they need. These changes include: Extension of the Emergency Benefit while travelling to 60 days from 40 The following changes will be made up until &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=7984\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;COVID-19: Changes to the Public Service Health Care Plan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[377,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7990,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions\/7990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}