§ 31003 County Employee Insurance Benefits

• •The county can offer insurance (like life and disability) to doctors, nurses, and other workers in county places like hospitals or health departments.
• •The county can pay for all or part of the insurance cost, using money from the general fund or the salary fund.
• •If the county doesn’t pay the full cost, they can take a little bit out of the worker’s paycheck to cover the rest.

A nurse working at a county hospital gets sick and can’t work for a few months.

The county had set up disability insurance for her, so she still gets some money while she’s sick. The county paid most of the insurance cost, and a small amount was taken from her paycheck each month.