Benefits Open Enrollment for 2022

October 22, 2021

Benefits

Dear fellow postdocs,

For those of you who are benefits-eligible, Benefits Open Enrollment for 2022 takes place from 8 a.m. Tuesday, October 26 to 11:59 p.m. EST, Thursday, November 4, 2021.This is the time of the year you can make changes to your benefit choices, including your health insurance plan.
We are aware that understanding medical plan options is not easy. To assist you in making informed choices, we would like to highlight the following resources:

Informational videos from the Harvard benefits office: 

https://hr.harvard.edu/benefits-enrollment

Open enrollment guide:

https://hr.harvard.edu/files/humanresources/files/2021_rate_healthplancompchart_facultynonunion.pdf

Insurance 101 webinar, recorded by the National Postdoc Association (NPA)

https://www.nationalpostdoc.org/general/custom.asp?page=myPostdoc_Archives

This video covers the basics of health insurance in the USA. Accessing this video requires membership to the NPA. You should be able to register for free with your @harvard.edu email. 

Finally, the HMPA advocacy committee is organizing a Q&A session on medical plans with a representative of the Harvard Benefits Office. We will inform you in due course about the details of the session, but in the meantime we would like to collect any questions you may have. Please post questions about your medical insurance or available plans in this document: https://forms.gle/57cY4yZLpBQ9Ay249 . We will do our best to hold this session before the end of the Open Enrollment period, but if that is not possible and you have urgent questions, we encourage you to contact the benefits office at benefits@harvard.edu or calling 617-496-4001.

If you are aware of any other resources that could be helpful to the postdoc community, please let us know. 

 

Best regards,

HMPA Advocacy committee