2025
Benefits Center
We have developed this Benefits Hub for
you as a one-stop-shop
for all of your year-round benefits needs.
Get access to things like plan documents, contact information, plan information,
helpful compliance notices & more!
To get started, click a Plan Icon or just continue scrolling.
Remember!
You have 30 days from your date of hire to enroll in benefits!
Medical
You are offered a variety of medical plans. Please see below for more detail on these plans.
Personify PPO
Preventive Care:
Plan pays 100%
Primary Care Office Visit:
$25 copay
Deductible:
$1,000 (I) / $3,000 (F)
Personify HDHP
Preventive Care:
Plan pays 100%
Primary Care Office Visit:
You pay 0% after deductible
Deductible:
$3,300 (I) / $6,600 (F)
Kaiser HMO (CA-Only)
Preventive Care:
Plan pays 100%
Primary Care Office Visit:
$30 copay
Deductible:
$1,000 (I) / $2,000 (F)
SIMNSA HMO (San Diego Plant Only)
Preventive Care:
Plan pays 100%
Primary Care Office Visit:
$10 copay
Deductible:
None
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Prescription Drug
Prescription Drug coverage is provided through Costco. You do not need to be a member of Costco to take advantage of your Prescription Drug benefit.
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HSA/FSA
A health savings account (HSA) is a medical savings account. You’ll earn the Ajinomoto HSA match on a per pay period basis, up to the maximum match of $500 individual/$1,000 family.
An flexible spending account (FSA) helps pay out-of-pocket healthcare expenses for
you and your family. Also, Dependent Daycare is
available for children under age 13. Adult care is
also eligible if physically or mentally incapable of
self-care and adult relative lives in your home.
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Dental Plans
View your plan offerings below:
DPPO
Deductible:
$50 (I) / $150 (F)
Basic Services:
You pay 20% after deductible
Major Services:
You pay 50% after deductible
Orthodontic Services:
Plan pays 50%, no deductible, up to $2,000/person max
DHMO
Deductible:
None
Basic Services:
Subject to copay schedule
Major Services:
Subject to copay schedule
Orthodontic Services:
Subject to copay schedule
SIMNSA
Deductible:
None
Basic Services:
Subject to copay schedule
Major Services:
Subject to copay schedule
Orthodontic Services:
$50 copay/visit
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Vision Plans
View your plan offerings below:
EyeMed Base Plan
Exam Copay:
$10 copay
Lenses:
Discounts available
Frames:
Discounts available
Contacts:
Discounts available
EyeMed Buy-up Plan
Exam Copay:
$10 copay
Lenses:
$10 copay for standard lenses
Frames:
$200 allowance + 20% off balance
Contacts:
$150 allowance + 15% off balance
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Life & Disability
These plans are designed to give you and your family additional benefits beyond your
standard medical, dental, and vision plans. Ajinomoto Foods pays for some of these benefits,
while others are voluntary additional programs you may wish to purchase to enhance
your benefits package.
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Financial Wellness
Included Benefits:
✓ 401(k) Retirement Plan
✓ PerkSpot Discount Program
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Work/Life Benefits
Benefits that go beyond basic and voluntary coverages. These are programs that offer
you and your family even more flexibility and added perks on top of what you enroll
in above.
Included Benefits:
✓ LegalEASE Plan
✓ Accident Plan
✓ Critical Illness Plan - includes a wellness and mammography benefit!
✓ Hospital Indemnity Plan - includes a wellness and mammography benefit!
✓ Voluntary Pet Insurance Plan offered through MetLife
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Employee Assistance Program
This program provides a counseling service that helps
you manage problems before they adversely affect your
personal life, health, and/or job performance.
All employees and their household members are eligible
for the EAP.
Contacts
Wellness
Informed on steps for an overall better you.
Maintaining healthy behaviors and understanding your healthcare benefits will help prevent mental, physical, and financial disease.
Learn more
Compliance
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A Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) has been designed to assist you with better understanding the coverage being offered to you, and to allow you to compare coverage options.
The SBC is available on www.afnabenefits.com. A paper copy is also available, free of charge, by calling 1-855-557-1467.
Ajinomoto Foods permits insurers to offer employees of Ajinomoto Foods certain voluntary insurance programs. Whether you choose to enroll in any of these programs is completely optional and voluntary. Ajinomoto Foods does not make a contribution towards the cost of these programs and employees pay the full cost of premiums on an after-tax basis. Ajinomoto Foods does not sponsor, maintain, endorse, recommend, or promote these voluntary programs. Ajinomoto Foods' involvement regarding these voluntary insurance programs is strictly limited to allowing the insurer access to employees to publicize these programs and Ajinomoto Foods may perform certain ministerial functions such as payroll deduction and forwarding employee premium payments to the insurer. Ajinomoto Foods does not receive any consideration in the form of cash or otherwise in connection with the program, other than reasonable compensation, excluding any profit, for administrative services actually rendered in connection with payroll deductions. Accordingly, these voluntary insurance programs are not subject to ERISA and related regulations. All questions or claims regarding these programs should be directed to the insurer.
All benefit plans are governed by master policies, contracts, and plan documents. In the event of any inconsistency between the information contained herein and the applicable plan documents, the provisions of the plan documents shall prevail. Ajinomoto Foods reserves the right to amend, suspend or terminate any benefit plan, in whole or in part, at any time. The authority to make such changes rests with the Plan Administrator.
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