Own Your Benefits
Own Your Benefits: Verifying Your Dependents
Effective July 1, 2024, due to a recent audit, all employees having a qualified life event and making any changes to their family health and/or dental coverage must verify all dependent relationships by providing corresponding legal documentation.
Examples of documentation:
- Spouse - marriage certificate, common law spouse affidavit
- Domestic Partner - notarized domestic partner affidavit
- Child - birth certificate which includes parents names, court order, or guardianship paperwork.
Since this impacts all life events, including open enrollment, we are notifying employees now so documentation can be easily provided when required. At the time of your life event, you can securely upload to UNI Works or bring into the Human Resource Services office in Gilchrist 025. All documentation needs to be viewed by HRS staff, but no documentation will be retained after it’s reviewed (i.e., if provided electronically, it will be purged). Do not send any personal documents through email as this is not secure.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation.
New Hire Benefits Orientation
New Hire Benefits Orientation
New Hire Benefits Orientation
Own Your Benefits: How to Access Your Benefits Accounts
Many of the benefits offered by the University have their own unique platform in which a member can log into to assist in managing their benefits. The platforms may contain specific data pertaining to the members account, or additional benefits and tips to utilizing the plan. Examples would be MyWellmark for your health plan, Delta Dental for your dental plan, ASIFlex for your flex spending account, or IPERS and TIAA for retirement. If you want more information regarding a specific benefit, and how to log in, please take a look at Human Resource Services How to Access Your Online Benefits Accounts webpage.
Own Your Benefits: Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Summer is a great time to remind those who have elected an FSA that it can be used on many over-the-counter items. Sunscreen and over-the-counter allergy medications are eligible for reimbursement. For a listing of eligible expenses, as well as over-the-counter eligible expenses, visit the FSA website.
Own Your Benefits: Understanding Retirement Health Care Options
Own Your Benefits: More Than Just Insurance, Legal Services and Discounts
Own Your Benefits: One Dental Plan, Two Networks
Delta Dental, our dental plan vendor, recently wrote about network savings in the Delta Dental Benefits Spotlight. Our UNI Dental Plan has two networks, the Delta Dental PPOSM and Delta Dental Premier®. Delta Dental wrote the differences as:
- Delta Dental PPO: Dentists in this network agree to the lowest fees for services and includes 43% of Iowa dentists.
- Delta Dental Premier: Dentists in this network agree to lower fees for services and includes 93% of Iowa’s dentists and 80% of dentists nationwide.
You can check to see which network your dentist participates in by using the Find a Provider Tool or by asking your dentist.