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Birth or Adoption

Benefits

Within 30 days of the birth or adoption of your first child, you may make these changes to your benefits:

  • Add your child to your medical or dental plan with coverage effective on the date of birth or adoption
  • Enroll in a flexible spending account or change the amount in your current account effective with the first full pay period following the date of birth/adoption
  • Add child life insurance for $10,000 without evidence of good health

Contact the Employee Benefits Service Center at 612-624-9090 or 800-756-2363 within 30 days to request these benefit changes. After the 30-day window, you need to wait until the next available open enrollment period to make changes.

At any time during the year you can make the following changes:

  • Add or increase employee additional life insurance, subject to underwriting, up to $500,000 or, if greater, five times your annual salary but not more than $1 million
  • Add spouse/same-sex domestic partner life insurance, subject to underwriting, up to a maximum of $500,000
  • Add or increase the amount of short term disability, subject to underwriting
  • Update beneficiaries on your retirement and insurance plans

Benefits Changes with Birth/Adoption

Constructing a Leave

In preparation for your leave:

  • Determine how your benefits will be affected by your leave. Call the Employee Benefits Service Center at 612-624-9090 or 800-756-2363 to discuss options if you have short term disability insurance or plan to take a leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
  • Depending on your employment classification, you can construct a leave using parental, sick, vacation, FMLA, and unpaid time. Every situation is unique. Contact April Narcisse in Human Resources at 612-626-1726 to help you interpret programs and policies to plan the right leave for you.

Constructing Your Leave

Additional Changes

Update Your W-4 Tax Information

  • Update the number of federal and state withholdng allowances

Paycheck Calculator

  • Calculate your net (take-home) pay, based on changes to your W-4 allowances