Benefits Self-Service
The Flexibility and Convenience You Have Been Waiting For!
It's hard not to see the value of automating the benefits enrollment. Starting in July, Self Service Benefits enrollment process will be quicker and more manageable through My UW System. Soon, UW employees will be able to manage their own enrollment process by updating their elections through online Self Service, therefore significantly decreasing the need for paper forms. For UW Benefits Administrators, the system significantly reduces administrative burdens by reducing the need to manually enter information numerous times into multiple databases. And on a year-round basis, the new Self Service system integrates with payroll and benefits providers by automatically delivering enrollment data files in the correct format on a predetermined schedule!
Did you know?
- Starting at HRS go-live, all UW employees should login to view and verify plan information, dependent tax status, and dependent plan information.
- Changes to employee information should be entered into Self Service on My UW System or sent to the UW institution's Human Resources office. Dependent updates should be sent to the UW institution's Human Resources office. UW employees should not contact benefit vendors directly with changes to address, plans, or any other information.
- The 2011 Open Enrollment will be administered online but paper forms will still be available.
New Features of Benefits Self Service
The new Benefits Self Service will include the following features:
- Online benefit enrollment for new hires and during the annual fall enrollment period.
- Dependent plan tracking.
- New Benefits summary that provides up to date benefits information and allows allows employees to review past coverage, as well as future effective coverage.
- The ability to update current TSA deductions online.
Self Service online benefits enrollment will give UW employees the power to manage their benefits online, ease of use, and flexibility to improve benefit enrollments. Self Service also:
For more information about HRS visit the HRS Project Website and the My UW System.
- Features a paperless enrollment solution for all forms of employee benefits including health, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Reimbursement Accounts, retirement, and more!
- Helps UW employees manage open enrollment while allowing them to make informed benefits decisions quickly and easily. Employees can review plan details, compare plans, and enroll using a quick, multi-step process.
- Provides employees the ability to view benefits information anytime, anywhere. (Enrollment will still take place only during scheduled enrollment periods.)
- Reduces unnecessary double-entry of benefits selections, therefore allowing benefits administrators to focus on value-driven tasks and improving customer service.
- Eliminates costly printing of documents such as Summary Plan Descriptions and reduces UW's environmental impact by saving paper.
- Allows existing employees to changes benefits selections beginning in the 2011 open enrollment, as well as add or change dependent coverage during open enrollment.
- Allows all eligible new employees to sign-up during their new-hire enrollment period beginning July 1, 2011.
- Determines employee eligibility and calculates benefits and costs based on employee-specific benefit rules.
- Provides automatic data feeds to benefit providers.
- Automatically feeds into payroll processes.
