Benefits

Benefits at UC Berkeley

The University of California offers a wide array of high-quality benefit plans from which to choose. These include comprehensive health and welfare insurance plans, a generous pension plan, and optional retirement savings opportunities.

Benefits packages for faculty and staff are based on job classification, the nature of employment and the number of hours worked.

UC offers a valuable Total Rewards package. To see the approximate value of your total compensation, use the...

Other Benefits

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

Health & Welfare Plans

UC offers comprehensive health and welfare insurance plans to protect you and your family. UC health and welfare benefits include:

New Employee Information

Eligibility for University benefits is based on your classification, the nature of your employment as well as your appointment duration and percentage of time and the number of hours you work.

Visit UCnet’s Eligibility webpage to understand how your appointment determines your eligibility for retirement and health and welfare benefits, the coverage available through each...

Understanding How Eligibility Works

Visit UCnet's Eligbility webpage to understand how your appointment determines your eligibility for retirement and health and welfare benefits, the coverage available through each benefits package, and which family members may qualify for coverage.

Financial Planning Resources

UC Berkeley offers many free classes, workshops and resources on financial management to help faculty, staff and retirees take control of their financial future. This dedicated portal page outlines those campus resources and provides recommended community resources. This effort is a collaboration of University departments working to bring together all the financial education and counseling opportunities available, organized to help across the life span, such as:

Starting your career at the University and needing to establish your financial plans with Fidelity Managing finances in this...

Health Care Facilitator Program

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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 Gabe Schmidt (details below). If you are not a UCB employee and you have a question, you may ...

Open Enrollment

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: 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...