The 2025 Annual Benefits Open Enrollment period is going on now and will run through November 30, 2024. During this time you may learn what is new for 2025, as well as review and change your benefit elections. Any changes made to your benefit elections will be effective January 1, 2025. No action is needed if you do not wish to make changes to health, dental, vision, or VTL. However, employees wishing to contribute to a Flex Spending Account (FSA) must enroll or re-enroll each year. Utilize UNI Works to make all changes and view the Open Enrollment webpage for more details.
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
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 documentation to UNI Works or bring it into the Human Resource Services office at 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.
As of the end of September U.S. households can order four additional rapid COVID-19 test kits. We ask that when possible, you use the free options for test kits as the kits are not charged to our self-insured health plans (which impacts employee premiums). These tests are intended for use by the end of 2024. Please visit covidtests.gov for more information on ordering, as well as how to tell if your COVID-19 tests' expiration dates have been extended.
The 2025 Annual Benefits Open Enrollment period will run from Friday, November 1 through Saturday, November 30, 2024. During this time you may review and change your benefit elections. Any changes made to your benefit elections will be effective January 1, 2025. Watch for an email announcement on November 1 as well as an informational mailing that will be sent to your home address later this month. We will be utilizing UNI Works to make all changes, please plan accordingly so you can navigate the new system.
