Employee Benefits Archive

  • Tuition Exchange Program Information Session September 11, 2024

    Tuition Exchange Program Information Session September 11, 2024

    The Office of Human Resources will host a Tuition Exchange Information session on Wednesday, September 11 at 12:45pm via Zoom, for faculty and staff who have dependents beginning their undergraduate studies in the fall of 2025. Any faculty and staff who are interested in learning more about this program is welcome to attend. The session will be recorded and posted on the Benefits Resources page of Human Resources' website.

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  • Review Your Beneficiary Designations This January

    Review Your Beneficiary Designations This January

    Naming and regularly reviewing beneficiaries (and updating if necessary) is important to ensure that your funds and benefit amounts will be distributed according to your wishes in the event of your death. Fortunately, doing so is quick and easy for your retirement plan account(s), HSA accounts, and life insurance.

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  • Learn How to Make the Most of Your Blue Cross Blue Shield Benefits – January 30 and 31

    Learn How to Make the Most of Your Blue Cross Blue Shield Benefits – January 30 and 31

    Join Viktoria Rill, Illinois Tech's Sr. Director of Total Rewards & People Development, later this month to learn all about how you can maximize your benefits through our Blue Cross Blue Shield medical plan. She'll briefly cover plan basics before jumping into rewards programs, programs that come with free tools to help you manage chronic conditions, our free digital exercise therapy program for members with muscle and joint pain, and more. She'll also talk about benefits that will help you save money on prescriptions, and the many advantages of Health Savings Accounts.

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  • Benefit Reminders for 2023

    Benefit Reminders for 2023

    Everyone on the BCBS medical plan will receive a new ID card for 2023 due to the change to the tiered network approach (the new Blue Choice Options PPO and HDHP). Everyone new to the medical plan will also receive a CVS Caremark ID, which is needed to obtain prescriptions. Existing members should retain their current ID cards.

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  • Open Enrollment for 2023 Benefits: November 1–15, 2022

    Open Enrollment for 2023 Benefits: November 1–15, 2022

    Illinois Tech’s annual open enrollment period for benefits will run from Tuesday, November 1, 2022, through Tuesday, November 15, 2022. Changes made during Open Enrollment become effective January 1, 2023. You're encouraged you to attend a live informational session to learn about benefit changes for 2023, watch the livestream of the first presentation, or watch the recording of the first session that will be posted on the HR website’s benefits page following the presentation.

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  • Tuition Exchange Eligibility Expansion & Application Dates

    Tuition Exchange Eligibility Expansion & Application Dates

    Illinois Institute of Technology accepts applications each fall for Tuition Exchange scholarships, and we have some exciting changes this year!

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  • Illinois Tech Health Plan Members: Claim Your Benefit for Back and Joint Pain with Hinge Health

    Illinois Tech Health Plan Members: Claim Your Benefit for Back and Joint Pain with Hinge Health

    Hinge Health goes above and beyond traditional physical therapy to help you take control of back and joint pain.

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  • CAFCU Financial Wellness Webinar

    CAFCU Financial Wellness Webinar

    On Thursday July 21 from 11:30 a.m.–12 p.m, Corporate America Credit Union, one of our Financial Wellness partners, will be hosting a webinar titled Finding Financial Independence.

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  • TIAA Educational Webinars for July 2022

    TIAA Educational Webinars for July 2022

    TIAA, one of Illinois Tech’s 403(b) Retirement Plan vendors, has announced several Financial Essentials webinars running from June 13-15, 2022.

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  • IRS Announces Business Mileage Rate Increase Effective July 1, 2022

    IRS Announces Business Mileage Rate Increase Effective July 1, 2022

    Beginning on July 1, 2022, the standard mileage rate for privately owned vehicles while on official IIT business will be 62.5 cents per mile, up 4 cents from the January 1, 2022 rate.

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