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Life insurance

The University provides faculty and staff with a certain amount of group term life insurance and the option to enroll in additional life insurance.

Enrollment

Employees may enroll in the University provided life insurance and the optional, additional life insurance (coverage for themselves) during their first 31 days of employment (coverage is guaranteed) by completing a Life Insurance Enrollment & Change Form. Select the form for your employee group on the HR Forms page. Please return the form to Human Resources.

After the first 31 days, employees may apply for the optional, additional life insurance (coverage is not guaranteed) by submitting an Evidence of Insurability application to Standard Life, our group life insurance carrier. Please contact Human Resources for more information and an application.

Beneficiaries

You may change your beneficiaries at any time by completing a Life Insurance Enrollment & Change Form which may be accessed via the HR Forms Web page.

You may view your current beneficiaries in GoWMU. Here's how:

After you login to GoWMU, select My Benefit Elections from the Faculty/Staff Home Tab.
Enter your Employee ID number (which you will find if you hover your cursor over "User Information Lookup" in the same area of GoWMU).
Select your current life insurance elections.
Beneficiaries for each of your life insurance options will appear on the next screen.

Dependent Life Insurance

Coaches, Research Staff (grades R1, R2, and Q only), and Staff Compensation System Exempt and Non-Exempt employees who are enrolled in Additional 1 Life may also enroll in Spouse Life and Child Life. For information and rates, see Dependent Life Insurance Highlights: or .

Canceling Coverage

You may cancel your optional, additional coverage at any time by completing a Life Insurance Enrollment & Change Form which may be accessed via the HR Forms Web page. Please return the form to Human Resources. Please note that re-enrollment would require Evidence of Insurability.

Claims

Standard Insurance is the University's group life insurance carrier. For claims service, you can reach Standard at 1-800-628-8600. The WMU Group Number is 642075-A.

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