{"id":1143,"date":"2018-10-31T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T19:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2018-10-31T19:26:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T19:26:30","slug":"2019-open-enrollment-how-to-enroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/2018\/10\/31\/2019-open-enrollment-how-to-enroll\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Open Enrollment: How to Enroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open Enrollment begins on Tuesday, October 30th and ends on Friday, November 9th. All benefit eligible employees\u00a0<strong>MUST\u00a0<\/strong>enroll online by end of day Friday, November 9th.\u00a0If you are not making changes or waive coverage, you\u00a0STILL\u00a0need to complete the online enrollment process.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Access the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enroll.benefitsconnect.net\/mwsu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benefits Connect website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><strong>Log In Instructions<\/strong> &#8211; At the log in screen, enter your username and password:<\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li><strong>User Name<\/strong>: Your user name is the first six characters of your last name, followed by the first letter of your first name, followed by the last four digits of your social security number<\/li>\n<li><strong>Password<\/strong>: Your initial password is your social security number (no spaces or dashes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><strong>Enrollment Instructions<\/strong><\/div>\n<ol style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">\n<li>Be sure to verify your personal information in the system.<\/li>\n<li>You will then need to add\/verify your dependent and beneficiary information (have name, date of birth, SSN and contact information before enrolling).<\/li>\n<li>Click on <strong>MY BENEFITS <\/strong>to begin making your benefit elections. You must elect or waive benefit selections.<\/li>\n<li>When you are finished, you <strong>must <\/strong>click <strong>FINISH ELECTIONS <\/strong>in the orange box to complete your enrollment process.<\/li>\n<li>You may print a benefit summary for your records.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Complete Your\u00a0 Online Enrollment By The Deadline<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Open Enrollment Dates<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong>Tuesday, October 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0thru Friday, November 9th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All benefit eligible employees\u00a0<strong>MUST<\/strong>\u00a0enroll online by end of day Friday, November 9th. <strong>If you are not making changes or waive coverage, you\u00a0STILL\u00a0need to complete the online enrollment process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Questions\/Need Help?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Contact Nicki Robertson at 816-271-4259 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nrobertson1@missouriwestern.edu\">nrobertson1@missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Enrollment begins on Tuesday, October 30th and ends on Friday, November 9th. All benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}