Employee Benefits
The City of Ames offers a comprehensive benefits package for employees regularly working 20 hours or more per week. Benefits are pro-rated for employees working between 20-39 hours per week. The benefits available include vacation, sick leave, family sick leave, emergency leave, life insurance and AD&D, health and dental insurance, vision insurance, retirement, long-term disability, tuition reimbursement, and an employee assistance program. Please click on a link below to view benefits available.
Benefit Summary Guides
Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC)
The SBC is a standardized document detailing simple and consistent information about health plan benefits and coverage. It includes key features of the plan, such as covered benefits, co-payment/coinsurance amounts and sample coverage examples.
2025-26 Coverage Period
2024-2025 Coverage Period
Additional Resources
- Machine-readable Files Covered Items and Services for In- and Out-of-Network Provider Rates
1095-C Distribution Notice
As an employer sponsoring a group health plan, we provide Form 1095-C for full-time employees. As a self-insured group health plan we also provide a form for non-full-time employees and other individuals covered on our plans.
Form 1095-C is an information document used to help administer certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). You do not need the form to file your tax returns. For more information, please visit the Internal Revenue Service's Q&A External Site.
You will not automatically receive the Form 1095-C; you may request the form by contacting us using any of the following methods of contact:
Telephone: 515-239-5199
Mailing Address: City of Ames; Attn: Human Resources; 515 Clark Ave; Ames, IA 50010
Email: hr@cityofames.org
Important Contact Information
Vendor Information
Please see Contacts page in the Benefit Summary Guide.
Human Resources
Vicki Hillock
Human Resources Secretary I
515-239-5215
vicki.hillock@cityofames.org
Krista Hammer
Human Resources Officer II
515-239-5293
krista.hammer@cityofames.org