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Update Your Benefits.

Congratulations on your recent marriage! When you get married, it’s important to update your benefits to reflect your new circumstances.

Marriage

Enter a Marriage Event in Workday

This event needs to be completed within 30 days of the marriage, with day 1 being the date of marriage. For detailed instructions on how to enter an event, verification options, and how to upload verifications into Workday, see below.

  1. Log in to Workday and click on the Menu icon in the upper left corner.
  2. Select Benefits and Pay icon, then Click Change Benefits.
  3. Choose the Marriage Change Reason and enter the date of Marriage.
  4. Click Submit, then Open, and  Let’s Get Started.
    • Important: The “Submit Elections by” date is the last day you can submit your event and upload verification in Workday.
    • Reminder: The Benefit Event Date must match the verification provided to approve the life event.
  5. Update your elections by clicking Enroll or Manage on each benefit tile you want to update. When finished, click Review and Sign.
    • Note: If you are adding new dependents, you will need to add the dependent in the first benefit tile you update. Once added, you can check the box next to their name for the rest of the benefit updates.
  6. If your elections are correct, review the electronic signature, check I Accept, and click Submit. If you need to change a benefit, click  Cancel to go back to the benefit election tiles.

Reminders

  • Each benefit tile is a separate election.
  • Dependents cannot be insured for more than the partner on Critical Illness or Life benefits.
  • Only one partner company-wide can carry any person on any specific benefit: partner, spouse, or child. Benefit vendors will not pay a claim under more than one partner.
  • Submit event and dependent verification documents (if applicable) by “Submit Elections by” date.

Submit Verification Documents

Verification Needed to Approve Event
  • Marriage certificate showing the date of marriage.
Dependent Verification
  • If you are adding children for the first time through this event, dependent verification will be needed for the newly added children.
  • Dependent verification examples can be found here.
Submit Verification
  • Instructions to upload verification can be found here.

Review and Update Beneficiaries for All Benefits

  • Life Insurance/Accidental Death & Dismemberment: Update in Workday through a beneficiary event or during the Birth Event. 
  • Health Savings Account: Changes must be made in the Optum portal.
  • Retirement: Changes must be made in the Principal portal.

Additional Benefits