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Open enrollment is your chance to enroll in or make changes to your benefits. With so many changes this year, it’s critical that you compare your options. Here’s a checklist to help you get started.
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Explore your options
Beginning Oct. 29, ALEX, your virtual benefits counselor, will lead you through a quick and easy Q&A and then provide premium contributions specific to you, estimates of your out-of-pocket costs for care and side-by-side medical plan comparisons. ALEX explains UC’s many other benefits, too!
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Learn what’s new or changing for 2026
HealthSavings+ is replacing CORE and UC Health Savings Plan, with new deductibles and coinsurance amounts, and premiums are changing for our other medical plans. Review your options to make sure you have the right coverage.
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Check out dental, vision, legal and more
UC continues to offer dental and vision plans at no cost for eligible employees and their dependents. Learn about new enhancements to the dental PPO plan and consider whether to add the security of any of UC’s voluntary coverage options.
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Save on your taxes
UC’s Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Savings Account (paired with HealthSavings+) allow you to save money tax-free to pay for eligible expenses. Compare your options and consider how much you should contribute this year. And remember, if you want to continue your Health and/or Dependent Care FSA you must re-enroll.
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Enroll online
Beginning Oct. 30, 2025, at 8 a.m., you can make all of your Open Enrollment changes on UCPath by 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 21. Here’s how to enroll using UCPath, and answers to frequently asked questions.
Unlike other UC benefits, voluntary disability, supplemental life, and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance are not options during the usual Open Enrollment process on UCPath. Here’s how to make changes.
If you’re not able to make changes online, you can call the UCPath Center for help at 855-982-7284, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Making changes in this way may require paper forms and additional time, so it’s a good idea to call as soon as possible.
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To ensure UC’s benefits resources are used wisely, anyone who enrolls new family members in their health and welfare benefit plans must provide documents to verify their family members’ eligibility for coverage.
UnifyHR administers the verification and reverification program for UC. You must respond by the deadline shown on the letter sent by UnifyHR to protect your family members’ coverage.