Category: Benefits

Verify your 2024 benefits elections

Any changes you made during the annual open enrollment period last fall will be reflected in your December and January payroll statements.

Verify your 2024 benefits elections

Have you verified your benefits deductions? Any changes you made during the annual open enrollment period will be reflected on your December and January payroll statements. Deductions for the 2024 calendar year began with the Dec. 1 paycheck.

Have a healthy and happy holiday season

As you make preparations for time off during the holidays, be sure to keep in mind the UF closing period and personal leave days.

Dr. Rachel DiSesa: “I have a better toolbox to represent UF as a science communicator”

Rachel DiSesa, Ph.D., partially credits her successes to the University of Florida’s Employee Education Program, or EEP.

Taylor Munson: “I would not be where I am today without the EEP”

Taylor Munson began her journey with the University of Florida as a volunteer at UF Health Jacksonville. Just over four years later, she now works as a clinical research coordinator III in the department of Emergency Medicine Research and holds a master’s degree from the University of North Florida — successes she credits in part to UF’s Employee Education Program, or EEP.

Read on to learn more about her experience with the program.

EEP opens doors to new opportunities for UF faculty and staff

The EEP is a source of financial support for faculty and staff looking to gain new skills and further their professional goals.

Learn more about 2024 pharmacy benefit program

Beginning Jan. 1, 2024, Optum Rx will replace CVS Caremark as the State of Florida’s pharmacy benefit manager. As part of the change, UF faculty and staff will receive new pharmacy cards, which can be used at more participating pharmacies, including Walgreens, CVS, Publix and Walmart as well as independent pharmacies throughout the state.

Have you made your benefits elections? Open enrollment ends Nov. 3

This is your opportunity to add, change or remove benefit plans for the next plan year.

Leave cash-out opportunity through Nov. 8

Each year, UF TEAMS employees are eligible to cash out up to 16 hours of vacation leave before the holiday season, provided a minimum of 40 hours remains on balance. This year’s leave cash-out period runs from Monday, Oct. 30, through Wednesday, Nov. 9. Eligible participants will receive the cash-out payment in their Nov. 17 paycheck.

TEAMS leave cash-out hours must be entered no later than midnight on Nov. 8 and approved by the supervisor no later than the deadline of 10 a.m. on Nov. 9, as Nov. 10 is a holiday and payroll is closing 1 day early. Departments are responsible for ensuring that no more than 16 hours are cashed out and that 40 hours remain after the cash-out hours have been deducted.

HEO scholarship applications due Nov. 1

The University of Florida’s Higher Education Opportunity, or HEO, scholarship provides children of full-time TEAMS employees with tuition assistance for an undergraduate education at UF. In March 2024, 150 TEAMS employees will be randomly selected by UF Human Resource from a pool of eligible applicants to participate in the HEO.

Each eligible employee may submit one child’s name into the drawing. To be considered for this benefit, the TEAMS employee must apply for the HEO scholarship by Nov. 1, 2023.