This month, mental health advocates, organizations, and communities unite to raise awareness and promote suicide prevention. We all play a role in preventing suicide. MSU Suicide Prevention Key Resources: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Dial 988 American Foundation for Suicide Prevention National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Emergency … [Read more...] about National Suicide Prevention Month
June 28 marks National Insurance Awareness Day, urging a thorough review of your insurance coverage to avoid being underinsured. Insurance provides essential security for loved ones and aids in recovering losses from damage, illness, or death. While insurance doesn't cover everything, it significantly alleviates financial burdens during crises. Remember to assess policies … [Read more...] about Know your Policies!
What Is a Beneficiary? A beneficiary is a person (or entity) who is designated to receive the benefits of property owned by someone else. A beneficiary can be designated in the documents relating to a life insurance policy, a retirement account, a brokerage account, a bank account, and other financial products. It's important to designate beneficiaries for your … [Read more...] about Naming a beneficiary: Are yours updated?
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.
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.