Benefits and Retirement Operations manages:

• Health and insurance benefits for active employees, employees on leave and employees who leave county employment (COBRA and retiree benefits)
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement system enrollment and information
• Deferred compensation plan enrollment and education
• The Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters (LEOFF 1) Disability Board.

Services include:

• Classes (new employee orientation, leave and exit classes and deferred compensation seminars)
• Benefit and retirement information and referral
• Direct assistance with everything from benefit, flexible spending account and retirement system enrollment to life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability claims processing.

To access services, please call or visit our Internet sites:

• For information and forms, go to
  www.metrokc.gov/finance/benefits
• For the LEOFF 1 Disability Board, go to
  www.metrokc.gov/finance/kcleoff1.