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Protect your income with short-term disability.

November 16, 2021 by Deidre Mings

The new voluntary short-term disability plan is especially beneficial to employees with low current sick/vacation leave balances. Do you know your balance? Did you know that should you become ill or injured and unable to work, that the University-provided Long-term disability (LTD) plan has a 26-week elimination period? That means, you would need to be off work for at least … [Read more...] about Protect your income with short-term disability.

Filed Under: Employee Benefits, insurance Tagged With: benefit fair, Long term disability, LTD, open enrollment, Short term disability, STD, UNUM, vacation leave

Reminder- Open enrollment, virtual benefits fair, and wellness incentive opportunity ends Dec 1.

November 12, 2021 by Deidre Mings

What is Open Enrollment? Open enrollment is the annual period during which you can elect/decline/or make changes to your medical, dental, vision, and cafeteria/flexible spending plans for the upcoming calendar year. Flexible spending elections must be elected annually. Additionally, our Term life carrier is providing guaranteed issue and we have a new supplemental short term … [Read more...] about Reminder- Open enrollment, virtual benefits fair, and wellness incentive opportunity ends Dec 1.

Filed Under: Employee Benefits, insurance Tagged With: Asiflex, benefit fair, cafeteria, Cafeteria Plan, covid, open enrollment, Short term disability, UNUM, wellness

Is all Life Insurance the same? Find out what is right for you.

November 5, 2021 by Deidre Mings

There are different Life insurance policies designed to protect your family. They fall into two main categories: term and permanent. Term policies- Like the name implies are good for a set period (term) of time. On the open market, these policies are usually purchased in 20- or 30-year term periods, while those provided by employers are based on term of employment. Term … [Read more...] about Is all Life Insurance the same? Find out what is right for you.

Filed Under: Employee Benefits, insurance Tagged With: AD&D, Allstate, benefit fair, Life Insurance, open enrollment, Term life, Universal Life insurance, UNUM

Benefit changes that benefit you!

October 12, 2021 by Deidre Mings

Special enrollment opportunities. New Short Term Disability benefit and New Life insurance carrier. Short Term Disability: MSU is excited to offer a new voluntary benefit. We are pleased to announce Hartford has been selected to offer short term disability coverage. Short-term disability is designed to protect  income when an employee cannot work because of an off-the-job … [Read more...] about Benefit changes that benefit you!

Filed Under: Communication, Employee Benefits, insurance Tagged With: AD&D, Hartford, Life Insurance, Long term disability, LTD, Short term disability, STD, UNUM

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