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Fidelity

Virtual Fidelity appointments can be scheduled for Dec. 15 online at or by calling 1-800-642-7131.

New York State Paid Family Leave (“PFL”) Premium Increase

Effective Jan. 1, 2021, eligible employees are required by state law to have PFL premiums deducted from their paychecks.  

• The premium will increase from .270% to .511% of weekly wage capped at New York’s average weekly wage, which will be $1,450.17 per week. The maximum deduction will be $14.83 biweekly ($385.34 per year).
   

As a reminder, eligible employees can receive Paid Family Leave benefits through New York’s disability benefit law. PFL provides eligible employees with job protection and partial wage replacement for the following:

• Bonding with a child during the first 12 months after the birth, adoption, or fostering of a child.
• Caring for a spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, or grandchild with a serious health condition.
• Assisting loved ones when a spouse, child, domestic partner, or parent is deployed abroad on active military duty.
   

Paid Family Leave benefits offer participants a percentage of the employee’s average weekly wage or of the Statewide Average Weekly Wage (SAWW), $1,450.17 for 2021, whichever is less.  

• As of Jan. 2021, the benefit is a maximum payment of 67% of the SAWW — capped at $971.61 per week — and a 12-week leave period.   

Further information can be found at . 

�IJʿ���’s Paid Family Leave Policy can be found here under General Benefit Information.