Benefits Open Enrollment begins Monday, April 18 and ends Friday, April 29. Below is the information you need to make changes to your health care benefits for the new plan year, which begins July 1.

How to Enroll: From Monday, April 18 through Friday, April 29, make changes to your benefits coverage online at www.pennbenefits.upenn.edu using your PennKey and password.

If you don’t have internet access, go to one of the following locations on campus to enroll online, or contact the Penn Benefits Center at 1-888-PENN-BEN (1-888-736-6236), Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. (EST), and complete your enrollment over the phone.

Goldstein Undergraduate Study Center

3420 Walnut Street

(ground level of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library)

Monday-Thursday:

24 hours daily
Friday: closes

12 midnight
Saturday:

10 a.m.-2 a.m.
Sunday:

opens 10 a.m.

Human Resources

3401 Walnut Street,

5th Floor

Monday-Friday:

8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

UA Staffing (formerly Unique Advantage)

3624 Market Street, Suite 1SD

Monday-Friday:

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Making Changes During Open Enrollment: During Open Enrollment you need to determine if your current benefits still meet your needs or if you need to make a change, such as:

• Enrolling, switching or dropping a medical, dental or vision plan.

• Increasing or decreasing your life insurance coverage.

• Reviewing your life insurance beneficiary.

• Changing how much you contribute to a flexible spending account.

• Adding or dropping a dependent from your benefits coverage.*

*If you add a new dependent, you’ll receive a letter requesting that you provide verification of that dependent’s eligibility under Penn’s plan rules. You’ll also need to provide verification if you re-enroll a spouse/partner who had previously been covered.

If You Don’t Enroll: If you don’t make changes during Open Enrollment, you’ll receive the same coverage you had last year.

It is important to remember that under the Affordable Care Act, if you waive your University coverage, you are still responsible for obtaining coverage through some other source.

Making Changes After Enrollment: The choices you make during Benefits Open Enrollment will remain in effect through June 30, 2017, unless you experience a qualifying event. Qualifying events include the birth or adoption of a child, marriage or domestic partnership (prior to July 1, 2016), divorce or separation, death of a dependent and change in your dependent’s eligibility for benefits.

When Are Changes Effective? Changes made during Open Enrollment will be effective as of July 1, 2016. New rates for all plans will be reflected in your July 2016 paycheck. Your pay must support your contributions for the benefits elected. If that is not the case, your enrollment cannot be processed.

More Information: Learn more about the 2016-2017 Open Enrollment period from the following resources:

Open Enrollment Presentations: Presentations run for 45 minutes and are followed by a Q&A session.

Tuesday, April 12

noon

Houston Hall, Golkin Room

Thursday, April 14

noon

Perelman School of Medicine, BRB Auditorium

Monday, April 18

11 a.m.

Houston Hall, Golkin Room

Monday, April 25

noon

Houston Hall, Golkin Room

Attend a Fair

Tuesday, April 19

10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Houston Hall, Hall of Flags

Wednesday, April 20

10 a.m.-2 p.m.

New Bolton Center,

Alumni Hall

Visit the Website: At www.hr.upenn.edu/openenrollment you can access 2016-2017 rates, benefit comparison charts, contribution charts and online provider directories. Contact the Penn Benefits Center at 1-888-PENN-BEN (1-888-736-6236), Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. (EST).

—Division of Human Resources