Benefits Open Enrollment

2025 Open Enrollment:

October 29 through 5 p.m. CST on November 12

Each year benefits are reviewed and updated to ensure Purdue employees are receiving the most up-to-date offerings.

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What's New?

Review an overview of what’s new for benefits in 2025.

Enrollment Info

Wondering how to enroll for your benefits? How to see your current elections? What happens if you don’t enroll? See the instructions below!

Go to one.purdue.edu and locate and click on the tile labeled “Benefits Open Enrollment for Faculty & Staff”.
Log into BenefitFocus using your career account username and password.
- Alternatively, you can get to BenefitFocus by clicking on the Benefits Enrollment tile within Success Factors and then selecting the BenefitFocus link.
On your BenefitFocus home page, select the “Get Started” button.
Review your profile information. You may update your personal email and mobile phone in the system. If other updates need to be made, please contact human resources. Click “Continue to next step” button.
Review your dependent information. If you need to add anyone, click “Add Dependent”. If you need to make changes, select “Edit”. Then, click “Next”.
Answer the survey questions for tobacco use, working spouse coverage and legal notice certification. Click “Save and Continue”.
Now you’re on the Open Enrollment Benefits page where you’ll see all of the benefits being offered. You will not be able to submit your enrollment until you have made a decision on all of the benefit plans. It’s best to follow the benefit plans in order.
Continue down the page selecting your coverages and making decisions for each.
Once you’ve made all your elections, review them. If everything is correct, click the “Complete Enrollment” button when you are ready to submit your selections.
When complete, the screen confirms you’ve completed your enrollment.
You may print a summary of your current and open enrollment benefit elections. At the top of the page click on Benefits, then select Employee Summary Report. You can print the summary or save the summary as a PDF file.

For 2025, we strongly advise you to complete the enrollment process. Failure to do so will result in the following defaults:

Benefit	Default Elections for Employees Who Do Not Enroll
Tobacco User Premium	Additional tobacco user premium will be charged for health, life, critical illness (for both employee and spouse)
Working Spouse Premium	Working spouse additional premium will be charged (for those that cover a spouse on health insurance)
Medical Plan	Same as 2024 election
Dental Plan	Same as 2024 election
Vision Plan	Same as 2024 election
Basic Term Life Insurance, Basic AD&D, Long Term Disability	Automatically Enrolled
Short Term Disability, Legal, Universal Life, Voluntary Term Life, Voluntary AD&D, Critical Illness, Supplemental Hospitalization, Voluntary Accident	Same as 2024 election
Spending and Savings Accounts (HSA/FSA/HRA/LPFSA/DCFSA)	Not enrolled. No Purdue or employee contributions.

Go to one.purdue.edu and locate and click on the tile labeled “Benefits Enrollment – Active”
Log into BenefitFocus using your career account username and password.
- Alternatively, you can get to BenefitFocus by clicking on the Benefits Enrollment tile within Success Factors and selecting the BenefitFocus link.
On your BenefitFocus home page, at the top of the page click on Benefits, then select Employee Summary Report. You can print the summary or save the summary as a PDF file.
Be certain you are looking at the “CURRENT ELECTIONS” section.