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Helping you thrive at UMass with outstanding employee benefits since 2000.

UAW/UMass Health & Welfare Trust Fund has provided UMass Amherst graduate student employees, postdoctoral candidates, and their families with high-quality dental, vision, childcare, and wellness benefits for over two decades. 

Grad Student Employee Benefits

  • FREE Dental Insurance from Altus Dental

  • FREE Vision Insurance from EyeMed

  • Reimbursement of childcare expenses

  • Reimbursement of wellness-related expenses up to $240 per family

  • Optional prepaid legal plan

  • FREE access to the Calm and Daily Burn apps

Postdoc Benefits

  • FREE Dental Insurance from Altus Dental

  • FREE Vision Insurance from EyeMed

  • FREE Life Insurance 

  • Reimbursement of wellness-related expenses up to $150 per family

  • Reimbursement of childcare expenses

  • FREE prepaid legal plan 

  • FREE access to the Calm and Daily Burn apps

  • Prepaid gym and wellness memberships

Understanding your eligibility

All graduate student employees and postdocs at UMass Amherst should apply to find out if they are eligible for Trust Fund benefits.

Apply using the enrollment portal. 

Graduate student employees may be eligible for GEO benefits.

 

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Postdoctoral candidates may be eligible for Postdoc benefits.

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Visit our Contact page to send us a message or schedule a one-on-one help session.

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