How to Enroll

When you retire, to continue benefits for yourself and your eligible dependents, you must have active employee coverage for at least one month. If you don’t already have state health insurance before your retirement, you may enroll as an active employee and must do so one month before you end employment. Once enrolled with active employee coverage for one month, you may then continue your health insurance coverage as a retiree. You must complete the New Retiree Insurance Election form within 31 days before your termination date. If you do not enroll or continue coverage within this time, you will not be allowed to join at a later date as a retiree.

You may enroll:

• Online – go to People First
• By telephone – call the People First Service Center at 866-663-4735 (for TTY users, at 866-221-0268), or
• By using a paper Health Insurance Enrollment/Change form.

*Retirees and surviving spouses can make changes online.

Health Savings Account Enrollment

Think you made your enrollment choices and now you’re through? If you enrolled in a Health Investor Health Plan, don’t stop until you have enrolled for your Health Savings Account. HSA enrollment is a two-step process:

• Once you have selected a Health Investor Health Plan, you must open your HSA through the People First system or your enrollment form – indicating how much you want to contribute, if anything,
• Then you must open your HSA personal bank account with a qualifying financial institution. Note: By Federal law, you will be required to provide your Social Security number, date of birth and residential address (not a post office box) to the HSA administrator before an HSA can be opened in your name.

Enrolling in Optional Overage Dependent Children Coverage

To enroll optional overage children between ages 19 and 30, you must provide either proof of student status or Florida residency, and may be asked to provide a birth certificate. If those dependents have been enrolled in your medical plan, as dependent children, up to age 25, you will be given a choice – to enroll the child as an overage dependent or take COBRA coverage.