What is Open Enrollment?
Open Enrollment is the annual period when employees have the opportunity to make changes to their benefits for the next calendar year. The choices you make during Open Enrollment take effect on January 1. Open Enrollment is generally the only time of year that you can change your benefit options, unless you have a qualifying life event like marriage, childbirth, or divorce.
You can learn more about changes you can make to your benefits outside of the open enrollment period by browsing the rest of the Benefits Enrollment and Changes webpages:
- Enrollment Overview covers benefits eligibility for you and your dependents
- New Employee or Newly Eligible Enrollment for an overview of what you need to do to enroll in benefits as a new hire or if you recently transitioned or reclassified into a benefits-eligible role at the University
- Life Events includes detailed information about family status changes and other circumstances that could trigger an opportunity to make certain changes to your benefits
- Year-Round Changes lays out the benefits changes that you can make any time of year without any special circumstances, including updating your beneficiaries.