All eligible faculty and staff may enroll or change their accidental death and
dismemberment (AD&D), dental, health, and personal spending account (PSA) plans during
Open Enrollment Nov. 1-30. Information regarding your benefit options was mailed to your
home address the last week of October. Changes you should look for in Vanderbilt's
benefits plans for 1998 include lower Prepaid Dental Care rates, changes in health care
rates, and a new maximum allowable coverage of $500,000 for AD&D.If you want to make a change or enroll in AD&D or dental care, please
complete a new benefits enrollment form (available in the Benefits Office).
Health care plan changes or enrollment in personal spending accounts
may be made Nov. 1-30 by calling the BENEPHONE at 1-800-638-4126. Participation in a PSA
for the 1998 calendar year requires enrollment whether you have participated previously or
not.
If you use the BENEPHONE you will receive a letter confirming the
changes you made. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the Benefits Office will be closed Nov.
.27 and 28. Forms brought to the Benefits Office before 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1 will be
accepted. Changes you make during Open Enrollment will be effective Jan. 1, 1998.
Benefits representatives, forms and information will be available in
the Courtyard Cafe on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. beginning Nov. 4.
You may also access benefits information on the Human
Resource Services Web site
