How to Enroll

You may enroll for state benefits when you first become eligible - as a new hire or because of a Qualifying Status Change event during the year - and again during Open Enrollment each year. If you don't make changes to your benefits during Open Enrollment, your previous year's benefit choices stay in effect for the following year unless there are contract vendor changes or changes in law.

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.

• You must complete your Annual Enrollment elections for 2009 calendar year benefits between September 22, 2008 and 5:30 p.m. Eastern time on October 17, 2008. If you use a paper form, it must be postmarked by October 17, 2008.
• If you are a newly hired employee or have just experienced a Qualifying Status Change event, your enrollment deadline is driven by your date of hire or the date of the event, respectively.

	Enrolled in a Health Investor Health Plan? Don’t miss out on the HSA... If you are an active employee who enrolled in a Health Investor Health Plan, you qualify for HSA contributions from the state. All you have to do is activate your HSA to get them. Just follow the instructions.

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 enrollment system or your enrollment form – indicating how much you want to contribute, if anything,
• Then you must activate your HSA personal bank account by completing and returning the HSA Application and Disclosure Package. 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.

Until you open your HSA in the enrollment system and activate your HSA personal bank account, you will miss out on the state’s contribution to your account.

Enrolling Optional Over-age Children

To enroll optional over-age 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 over-age dependent or take COBRA coverage.