HR News Updates | October 2019

Open Enrollment continues through Friday, October 4th. Remember, adding or making changes to your benefits as part of Open Enrollment is an easy online process via the eBenefits module in the CSUN portal.

• Benefit election changes selected during Open Enrollment become effective January 1, 2020.
• For comprehensive instructions and information, including an Open Enrollment Guidebook, and to review your plan options and the 2020 premium rates, visit the CSUN Open Enrollment website at Open Enrollment for 2020.

If you have reviewed the Open Enrollment information, the plan premium rates, and are satisfied with your current elections and do not wish to make any changes, no further action is needed. Your current elections for these plans will automatically continue for plan year 2020. However, if you want a Health Care or Dependent Care Reimbursement Account, you must re-enroll every year.

The CSU Employee Fee Waiver and Reduction Program provides for the waiver or reduction of tuition and certain fees for eligible employees. In addition, an eligible CSU employee may transfer their fee waiver benefit to a spouse, domestic partner, or eligible dependent child. CSUN employees who want to complete a bachelor’s or graduate degree, enhance job skills, or even prepare for a future career, are encouraged to participate in the program.  Eligible employees or their eligible dependent may have tuition and fees for a maximum of two (2) courses or six (6) units, whichever is greater, waived/reduced each semester.

The CSU Fee Waiver module will be available September 30, 2019 for Spring 2020 applications. In order to ensure timely processing, please submit your application no later than November 1, 2019.

Partnering with Admissions & Records, and Student Accounting, we will be offering a workshop on the Fee Waiver and Reduction Program on Thursday, October 17, 2019 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the HR Training Room, Oviatt Library, Room 16. Join us and get your questions answered!

For more information, visit: http://www.csun.edu/benefits/fee-waiver-reduction-program.

Are you interested in furthering your educational goals or transferring the Fee Waiver & Reduction Program benefit to an eligible family member? If so, you will want to attend this session so you can maximize this wonderful benefit to help achieve educational goals.

Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: Human Resources Training Room, Oviatt Library 16, Garden Level

Facilitated By:

• Nikki Valadez, Human Resources
• Nick Alexander, Admissions & Records
• Frank Calderon, Admissions & Records
• Shen Milunovic, Student Finance

For Details and Registration Information: https://www.csun.edu/healthy-matadors/events/learning-can-be-fun-and-almost-free-csu-fee-waiver-20190917

If you haven’t already done so, visit our LifeMatters@CSUN website to learn about all of the services and resources available to you and your family/household members as part of your Employee Assistance Program benefit.

You can access the LifeMatters website on your desktop, or mobile device. Visit https://www.mylifematters.com/.

Monthly Webinar

In addition, LifeMatters hosts monthly Webinars. Most Webinars are live, and some are posted for download.

This month’s webinar (LIVE) will be held on Wednesday, October 23, 2019, TWO OPTIONS:  9:00 – 10:00 a.m. OR 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. PDT  

Talking to children about scary events:

This webinar discusses the signs of distress, comforting methods, and how to answer questions.

To register for a live webinar:

o    Go to mylifematters.com/my/webinars and log in using the password “Matadors.”

o    You must register prior to the start of the webinar in order to attend.

Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Location: Human Resources Training Room, Oviatt Library 16, Garden Level
Facilitated By:

Laurie Gold-Brubaker, Associate Director, Benefits & Worker"s Compensation

Description:

Come join us for an overview of Life Matters (CSUN's Employee Assistance Program) and the services that can be accessed by employees and their family members, via internet, a 24 hour telephone hotline and or face to face meetings with consultants.  

The new Position Description- Staff form is now available on-line at the Human Resources Forms – A to Z.  There are new How To and FAQs, as well as informational resources under the HR Manager & Facilitator Toolkit, and Classification & Compensation webpages.  All new position descriptions especially for Recruitment and Classification Review must now be on the new form.  Please contact Lynn Marks or Robyn McKibbon with any questions.

Dependent Re-Verification (DRV) is the process of re-verifying the eligibility of your spouse, domestic partner, children, stepchildren, and domestic partner children (family members) enrolled for state health and dental benefits. Government Code section 22843.1 mandates re-verifying the eligibility of your family members. Government Code section 22959 authorizes extending this review to your family members enrolled for dental benefits.

•        The eligibility of your family members will be re-verified once every three years. The re-verification period is based on your birth month. Employees born during the following months are required to re-verify family members during 2019: February, May, August and November.
•         For those employees with birthdays in November, CalPERS, will mail you information explaining the process and the documentation required to maintain health coverage for your dependents. Please read and ensure Human Resources has your documents prior to November 1, 2019 in order for your dependent(s) to continue receiving health coverage and avoid cancellation on 12/1/2019.
•        For more information visit the following page: Health Care Dependent Re-Verification

Whether you are already a PERS Care member or considering joining, we encourage you to stay informed and make sure you understand your choices and how the different types of health plans work.  Learn more at: https://www.anthem.com/ca/calpers/.