How to join
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How to join?
All new members must be registered from date of employment. All membership application forms or proof that you are a dependant on your spouse's or partner's medical scheme must be submitted directly to your HR Department or Pension Fund Office and not to Sasolmed, except for direct-paying members of Sasolmed.
The employer (HR) must supply all completed documents by the 10th day of the employment month. If documents are received after the 10th, the dependants will be registered from the 1st of the following month as this will be deemed as a late registration. Waiting periods and exclusions will apply, where applicable.
Membership of a registered medical scheme is compulsory for all Sasol employees, either as principal members of Sasolmed or as a registered dependant of a spouse or partner's medical scheme. Employees retiring from Sasol's service or who are declared medically disabled are also eligible for membership.
A member's spouse/partner
A person with whom the member has a committed relationship akin to marriage, based on objective criteria of mutual dependency and a shared and common household, irrespective of the gender of either party
Immediate family
A parent or child of a principal member or the spouse of the principal member (spouse must be part of the application/membership) or such other persons that the member is liable for family care and support, subject to annual review
Children
- Foster children
- Adopted children
- Children for whom the principal member has a parenting plan or shared responsibility according to a court order
- Grandchildren and stepchildren, if specific criteria are met
Dependants of deceased members (surviving dependants)
Membership of a member terminates on the date of death. The surviving dependants of a deceased member, who are registered with the Scheme as dependants at the time of the member's death, shall be entitled to continued membership of the Scheme without any restrictions, limitations or waiting periods, but such dependant shall not be allowed to register a new spouse or partner or child unless the widow is pregnant at the time of the member's passing. The employer shall inform the dependant of his right to membership and of the contributions payable in respect thereof. If a member dies with no spouse or partner and leaves an orphaned child (excluding a stepchild unless the child was adopted by the principal member) who, at the date of the member's death, was registered as a dependant, such child or in the case of more than one child, the youngest eligible child, if the guardian so wishes, will be admitted as the principal member of the Scheme. In the case of more than one child, the other child or children will be accepted as dependants on the same basis up to the age of 23.
Sasolmed reserves the right to impose waiting periods.
Three-month general waiting period
- All dependants who have not had cover for more than 90 days and whose period of membership on his/her previous medical scheme is less than 24 months.
- Applicants who have had no previous medical cover or have allowed more than 90 days break in membership since resigning from their previous scheme.
- Newborns not registered within 30 days of birth.
12-month medical condition-specific waiting period
- Applicants who have had less than two years cover and applied to the medical scheme less than 90 days after termination from the previous scheme. Dependants who have not had cover for more than 90 days and whose period of membership on his/her previous medical scheme is less than 24 months.
Three-month general waiting period and 12-month condition-specific waiting period
- The dependant of an existing member who joins after the member and whose gap in medical cover exceeds 90 days. Longer than two years' previous membership with less than a 90-day break between previous medical scheme and date of application to Sasolmed.
Late joiner penalties
- Members or adult dependants over the age of 35, who were not previously members of a medical scheme or who have had a break in coverage of more than three consecutive months since 1 April 2001.