<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/downstate-update/2025/november/11-03-pep-2025.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories/><pubDate>11/03/2025 03:40:35 PM</pubDate><title>Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP)</title><sub-title/><description>The Productivity Enhancement Program (PEP) for 2026 allows eligible SUNY Management Confidential (MIC) and UUP represented employees to exchange up to eight previously accrued annual leave in return for a biweekly credit that reduces the employee's share of the New York State health Insurance Program (NYSHIP) premium. </description><author>Benefits Office</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="" alt=""/></image><loc>/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/news-events/downstate-update/2025/november/11-03-pep-2025.xml</loc><tags><tag>Employee Resources</tag></tags><categories/></item>