Source: SkyNet (United's Intranet)
United Airlines offers benefits for an employee's domestic partner as part of the company’s commitment to valuing and supporting diversity among our employees and customers. Other major companies offering similar benefits.
The same health, welfare, and travel benefits United currently provides to an employee's spouse are available as of May 1, 2000, to an employee's same sex domestic partner. (Please see the Questions and Answers or the Affidavit for detailed information.) These benefits include medical and dental coverage, travel benefits, life and personal accident insurance, and a pre-retirement survivor pension benefit, (if elected by the employee). If an employee can legally marry his/her domestic partner under US law but chooses not to do so, then his or her domestic partner is eligible under this program for travel and bereavement leave benefits only. An employees and his or her domestic partner will need to meet certain requirements and provide legally acceptable evidence of their relationship in order to qualify for benefits.
The information provided here will help you find answers to your domestic partner benefits questions. Included are the Affidavits featuring direct print capability. You will also find information on imputed income and some examples of how it is calculated. The questions and answers originally mailed to employees are available for your reference as well.
There are two affidavits available:
First is the Affidavit of Domestic Partnership which you will need to register your relationship (unless you use an approved government registry service). We suggest you thoroughly review the affidavit, noting the actions you will need to take and the documents needed prior to completing the Affidavit. The Family Status Change you need is available at www.ualbenefits.com.
Second is the Affidavit of Termination of Domestic Partnership. You will need this document in the event that your domestic partner relationship has ended. You will need to submit this document within 30 days of the date your relationship ended along with a Family Status Change, including if your domestic partner is now deceased.