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Benefits Enrollment Information

 

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New employees will be contacted by the UMS Employee Benefits Center via an email to their @maine.edu email account.  The email will contain important benefits information. 

Employees are encouraged to enter their benefit choices in MaineStreet within 31 days of their date of hire.  To get started, log in to MaineStreet and navigate to Employee Self-Service > Benefits > Benefits Enrollment.

 

View Current Enrollments

Employees currently enrolled in benefits may view their enrollment information online anytime.  Simply log in to MaineStreet and navigate to Employee Self-Service > Benefits > Benefits Summary.

 

Change Current Enrollments

After a newly-hired employee has enrolled in benefits, they may only change their coverages when there is a "qualifying life event" or during the annual open enrollment period.

1.  Qualifying Life Events

In order to change benefit elections outside of the annual enrollment period, an employee must have:

  • Experienced a qualifying life event, as defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and
  • The employee must have made a request for a change of benefits within 31 days of the applicable qualifying life event.

         Click here for a list of qualifying life events.

 

2.  Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment is an annual event that gives employees the opportunity to review their benefit elections and decide if they wish to make any changes. Employees have a great deal of flexibility in designing their own personalized benefits package.  Open Enrollment information is mailed to employees' home addresses in November of each year.

                 Click here for more information about Open Enrollment.

Assign Beneficiary Designations

All employees who are enrolled in any of the following benefit plans must assign life insurance beneficiary designations:

  • Life
  • Supplemental Life
  • Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD and D)
  • Supplemental AD and D

Beneficiaries must be separately assigned to each of the plans above.  To assign beneficiaries, follow these easy steps:

  1. Log in to MaineStreet;
  2. Navigate to Employee Self-Service > Benefits > Insurance Summary;
  3. Click on any one of the benefits listed above;
  4. Click Edit in the Beneficiary section. 
  5. Repeat steps 3 & 4 for every life insurance benefit listed above.

 

Other Related Information

 

 

UMS questionsContact the Employee Benefits Center

         If you have a question about benefits enrollment, contact the UMS Employee Benefits Center toll-free 866-269-9635 (or local 973-3373) or email benefits@maine.edu.  Have your Employee ID number for faster service.

 

 

Last Updated:  January 30, 2013->