Qualifying Life Events

Qualifying Life Events (QLE) allow you to make changes within the year as long as you make the change and provide the required supporting documentation within the required timeframe. Please submit any QLE changes using the button below.

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Qualifying Life Events (QLE) allow you to make changes to your benefit elections within the plan year if you make the changes and provide the required supporting documentation within the required timeframe.

If you experience one of the events below, you must report the event using the button below within 30 days of the date of the event. You will have an additional 30 days to provide the proof. If you miss either deadline, you may have to wait until the next Annual Open Enrollment period to make changes.

Change in Marital Status or
Domestic Partnership

Getting married, legally separating, or getting divorced qualifies as a Life Event eligible for a change.

My kid is turning 26

Your children are eligible for medical, dental, vision and child life to age 26. The Benefits Team will automatically end coverage at the end of the month following their 26th birthday.

Children

Giving birth to or adopting a child or obtaining legal custody of a child qualifies as a QLE.

Gain or Loss of Other Coverage

When you or an eligible family member loses or gains coverage under any other group plan.

Medicare

If you’ve recently become eligible for Medicare, you’re eligible for a Life Event change.

A Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) has been designed to assist you with better understanding the coverage being offered to you, and to allow you to compare coverage options. The SBC is available on www.afnabenefits.com. A paper copy is also available, free of charge, by calling 1-855-557-1467.

Ajinomoto Foods permits insurers to offer employees of Ajinomoto Foods certain voluntary insurance programs. Whether you choose to enroll in any of these programs is completely optional and voluntary. Ajinomoto Foods does not make a contribution towards the cost of these programs and employees pay the full cost of premiums on an after-tax basis. Ajinomoto Foods does not sponsor, maintain, endorse, recommend, or promote these voluntary programs. Ajinomoto Foods' involvement regarding these voluntary insurance programs is strictly limited to allowing the insurer access to employees to publicize these programs and Ajinomoto Foods may perform certain ministerial functions such as payroll deduction and forwarding employee premium payments to the insurer. Ajinomoto Foods does not receive any consideration in the form of cash or otherwise in connection with the program, other than reasonable compensation, excluding any profit, for administrative services actually rendered in connection with payroll deductions. Accordingly, these voluntary insurance programs are not subject to ERISA and related regulations. All questions or claims regarding these programs should be directed to the insurer.

All benefit plans are governed by master policies, contracts, and plan documents. In the event of any inconsistency between the information contained herein and the applicable plan documents, the provisions of the plan documents shall prevail. Learning Care Group reserves the right to amend, suspend or terminate any benefit plan, in whole or in part, at any time. The authority to make such changes rests with the Plan Administrator.

The following tax rules apply to the wellness program incentives: Cash and cash equivalents Cash and cash equivalents (for example, a gift card for taking a health risk assessment) are always taxable. The cash amount (or gift card value) must be included in the employee’s income and is subject to payroll taxes. Any reward, incentive, or other benefit provided by a wellness program that is not medical care is included in an employee’s income.

Your individual data is protected under a number of privacy laws, policies, and statutes. Your data is kept secure and private. Only you will be able to see your personal health data. Your employer will receive a summary report of data on aggregate, but will not have access to your individual results.

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