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Making
Changes to Your Benefits
When You Can Make Changes
to Your Benefits
Generally, after you enroll for your benefits —
either as a new employee or during the annual open season —
your benefit choices remain in effect through the entire year, as
long as you continue to meet each plan's eligibility requirements.
You may not make changes to your benefits until the next annual
open season, unless you have an IRS qualified family status change.
Status changes include:
- Your marriage, divorce, legal separation,
or annulment;
- The birth, adoption, placement for adoption,
or appointment of legal guardianship of your child;
- Your death;
- The death of your dependent;
- Your dependent losing or gaining employment;
- A change in your (or your dependent's) employment
status from full-time to part-time or part-time to full-time,
or beginning or ending an unpaid leave of absence;
- A change in your dependent's eligibility;
and
- A change in who must provide coverage for
a dependent according to a judgment, decree, or order resulting
from your divorce, legal separation, annulment, or change in legal
custody.
Any changes you make to your benefits as a result
of a status change must be consistent with the change.
For information on how these family status changes
affect each of your Board-provided plans, refer to the specific
plan sections.
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