Your DGC Benefits Plan provides you and your family with valuable, affordable mental and physical health coverage and financial protection if you experience an illness, injury or disability. In this section, we explain how the plan works and what’s covered under each level.
For your 2027 benefits re-enrolment, you’ll use the new Member Benefit Portal to make your benefit selections.
Before you can begin your re-enrolment, you’ll need to register for the portal and create an account. To register, you’ll need:
You’ll also need to create your own password and verify your registration by email.
Keep in mind: The new Member Benefit Portal is only for benefits re-enrolment and updating your information. It does not replace your Canada Life account. You’ll continue to use Canada Life to submit claims, track your claims, view your remaining balances, and manage your Healthcare Spending Account (HSA).
Visit our Member Benefit Portal page for step-by-step registration and sign-in instructions.
Every year, our Trustees carefully review the plan’s coverage and costs to make sure it continues to provide valuable benefits that support your needs today, while keeping the plan strong and sustainable for the future.
Over the past several years, our benefits plan has navigated the challenges of the pandemic and market volatility, rising health care costs, as well as other entertainment industry-related challenges. Because of these pressures, our Trustees recognize that maintaining a strong and sustainable benefits plan requires, at times, difficult decisions – such as increasing costs or making changes to who qualifies for coverage.
With this in mind, you may notice some changes coming into effect in 2027 to help keep our plan financially healthy for the years ahead.
Here’s an overview of what you can expect for 2027:
When you re-enrol, you may see a change to the coverage you automatically qualify for and an increase in the cost to upgrade coverage for 2027.
To confirm the coverage level you automatically qualify for, go to the benefit page in the Member Benefit Portal starting November 2. For details about qualifying for coverage and upgrade costs, see the Determining Coverage Levels page on the DGC Benefits website.
If you die while a member in Active Good Standing, the Trustees want to ensure your surviving spouse and eligible dependant children continue to receive a core level of coverage.
Starting January 1, 2027, if you have Level I coverage or higher, your surviving dependant(s) will receive some level of health and dental coverage for two years after your death, or three years if you have 25 or more years of membership in the DGC.
For more information about survivor benefits and details on what your surviving dependant(s) will receive, see <insert link>.
Starting January 1, 2027, to qualify for Level II or III STD benefits, you must have worked at least 14 consecutive days under a DGC signatory production or dispensation production with fringes paid into the Trust in the 12 months before the date of your disability.
If you have Basic, Level I, Life Member, or Enhanced Life Member coverage, or you are over age 75, you continue to be ineligible for benefits coverage while on an STD leave.
For more information about STD benefits, see here.
