Benefits 2025: What You Need to Know

Annual Benefits Enrollment (ABE) is an annual opportunity for benefits-eligible team members to enroll in or make changes to most benefit plans for the upcoming calendar year, effective January 1, 2025. ABE takes place from September 30 through October 25, 2024. This is the only time you can make changes to certain benefits without having an eligible life event (for example marriage, birth, or divorce) or qualifying employment change during the year. All enrollments and changes can be made via your MyUW portal. Benefits that Require Yearly Enrollment (if you don’t re-enroll in these plans every year during ABE, participation in these plans terminate. They do not automatically continue into the next year).

• Health Opt-Out Incentive (please make sure to select “Opt-Out” and NOT “Waive”).
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA):
  • Health Care FSA
  • Dependent Day Care FSA
  • Limited Purpose FSA
• Health Savings Account (HSA) as part of the High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) or Access HDHP.

All information regarding the Annual Benefits Enrollment, changes for 2024, and rates can be found at the UW System Annual Benefits Enrollment (ABE) site (https://www.wisconsin.edu/abe/). There will be two (same content) optional “Benefits 2024: DEM-Led Benefits Information sessions:”

• Thursday, October 3
  • 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

• Tuesday, October 22
  • 2:00-3:15 p.m.

We are also planning to hold 2025 Benefits Enrollment “office hours” to help team members complete their enrollments. We will provide more information when these dates/times are set up. Please consider attending the on-site Employee Benefits and Resource Fair for swag and more information:

• Tuesday, October 9, 2024
  • 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
    • Varsity Hall at Union South