open enrollment checklist
Open Enrollment ends May 17 (at 11:59 p.m.).
If you miss this deadline, you may be left with benefits that don’t meet your needs for an entire year.
Get Ready to Enroll
- Review your current coverage and enrolled dependents
- Compare plans and estimate expenses
- Use ALEX to help you choose your benefits
- Calculate HSA and FSA contributions
- Sign up for a one-on-one meeting with a Benefits Team member
- Watch the Open Enrollment video for a summary of your choices and more details.
- Check out your benefit decisions in the list to the left
- Check out your benefit decisions in the top right menu
- Visit How to Enroll to take action
If You Don’t Enroll by May 17
- Beginning fiscal year 2025 (starting July 1, 2024), health care FSA, limited purpose FSA, and dependent care FSA benefits will not roll over and must be actively elected
- Your medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage will continue through June 30, 2025 and any HSA and commuter benefit elections will carry over
- You won’t be able to enroll in or make changes to medical, dental, vision, or FSAs until next year’s Open Enrollment unless you experience a qualifying life event (like a birth, marriage, divorce, death, or your spouse/domestic partner losing coverage)
- Any unused Healthcare and Limited Purpose FSA dollars over $610 will be forfeited
- Any unused Dependent Care FSA dollars must be used by June 30, 2024 or they will be forfeited
- You can change your HSA contributions throughout the plan year (IRS limits apply)
After You Enroll
- Review your confirmation statement right after you enroll
- Check your first paycheck of the new fiscal year (starting July 1, 2024) to be sure the deductions are correct
- Watch for your dental ID card in the mail and begin using it July 1, 2024
- Enrolling in the HSA or FSA for the first time?
- Watch for your welcome packet in the mail from Voya (if you enroll in the Blue PPO + HSA and/or an FSA). If you enroll in the Blue PPO + HSA, you must open an HSA with Voya to receive the Art Institute contributions and have access to your Voya HSA
- Watch for your HSA/FSA debit card in the mail before July 1 if enrolled; you can download the Voya mobile app via your phone’s app store for convenient account access
- Enrolling in medical coverage for the first time?
- Watch for your BCBSIL medical/prescription drug card in the mail
Sign up for a one-on-one meeting with a Benefits Team member.
Have a conversation with ALEX, our interactive benefits tool, to help you choose your medical, dental, and vision plans.