Benefits

Other Benefits

As a UC faculty or staff employee, you may have access to additional benefits.

Open Enrollment

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Open Enrollment for 2025 benefits is here! Enroll from October 31 through November 22 at 5 p.m.

Open Enrollment is your annual opportunity to maximize the comprehensive health benefits available to you as a UC employee. Please click on the ...

Life Events that Create a Period of Initial Eligibility

Certain life events create a PIE – a period of initial eligibility – when eligible employees and eligible family members can enroll in or change plan(s) without meeting special requirements, such as submitting a Statement of Health for carrier approval.

For the medical, dental, vision, legal, and TIP plans, once you have selected a plan, you may not change it until there is either 1) a new PIE or 2) an Open Enrollment period where the plan is offered. However, you may opt-out or cancel your coverage at any time....

Departmental Human Resources Managers & Generalists: New Hire, Rehire, Intercampus Transfer

When a new, rehired, or transferred employee begins work, please follow the steps below to ensure the employee is able to enroll in their desired benefits plans.

Inform new employee of applicable Benefits Package – Full, Mid-Level, Core or none Inform employee they must enroll in most of the Health and Welfare benefits within 31 days of the date of hire or date of eligibility. Inform employee they should be able to enroll online by choosing “Sign in to your accounts” on the UCnet website. If they...

Departmental Human Resources Managers & Generalists: Employees Returning from Leave

Employees must reenroll in benefits within 31 days of their return from a leave of absence using forms UPAY 850 (PDF) and/or UPAY 919 (PDF). To ensure all benefits resume as desired, employees must re-enroll in all of their Health & Welfare benefits, regardless of whether or not the benefit was continued while on leave.

If an employee is on leave for less than 120...

Health Care Facilitator Program

UC's Health Care Facilitator Program helps faculty and staff and their eligible family members understand and obtain the full benefits and services available from their UC-sponsored health plans, and provides confidential one-on-one assistance in resolving health plan issues.

If you are a UCB employee and need HR assistance please contact your region. If you are not a UCB employee...

Death of Employee/ Family Member

When an employee or an employee's family member dies, the surviving family members or named beneficiaries may be eligible for certain benefits. Departmental HR staff should report the death immediately so notifications can be made and paperwork started.

Employee Assistance can provide counseling for employees dealing with the loss of a family member or coworker.

Reporting a Death
Immediately...

Departmental Human Resources: Benefits Enrollment Process

UC offers eligible faculty and staff employees three benefits packages – Full, Mid-Level, and Core. These benefits packages determine eligibility for Health and Welfare and Retirement plans. Please see Benefits Packages for details. Eligibility for a particular package depends on job type, the percentage of time worked, and the appointment length.

For more information on benefits actions and how to take them,...

Departmental Human Resources: Eligibility

How benefits eligibility works For employees in career, academic, limited, partial-year career, contract, and floater appointments Eligibility for a particular benefits package depends on the type of job, the percentage of time worked, and the appointment length.

Full Benefits: Employees in the above categories (career, academic, limited, partial-year career, contract, and floater appointments), working 50 percent time or more for at least one year,...

Departmental Human Resources Managers & Generalists: Leave of Absence Premium Overpayment

Timely action is required to formally put the employee on leave. If an employee is showing as active at the time of the monthly payroll deadline, the department will be charged for the following month’s premiums. Once charged, premiums are not refundable unless they are refunded automatically through the consolidated billing process. If UC is refunded the premium by the insurance company, then the department is also refunded.

To avoid this problem, departments must

Place the employee on leave in HCM in a timely manner Take an active role in assuring that employees going...