New Staff Welcome Center - Benefits Sign-Up

New Full-time Faculty and Staff Benefits Sign-Up Process

This page provides access to the resources and forms required to process your BGSU Benefits. This page also provides access to online Benefit Enrollment in MyBGSU, which must be completed within 31 days of your first day of employment with BGSU. 

Although you have 31 days to complete your online benefits enrollment, we ask that you electronically complete and submit the following forms to the Office of Human Resources when you attend your Benefits session at the office or, if faculty, as soon as possible.  

• OHR Benefits Session Checklist
• Beneficiary Designation for Minnesota Life
• Travel Risk Insurance Beneficiary Designation
• Dependent Life Insurance Enrollment (if desired)
• Health Insurance Certification Forms for Dependents (spouse, same -sex domestic partner, etc)
• Supporting Documentation (birth certificates, marriage certificates, etc)

Please follow the instructions listed below for completing your Benefits sign-up process.

1)  Access and electronically complete and print the above mentioned forms, ID cards, and other documents as desired from the table below. You will need to use your home computer or a public computer to complete and print these documents. You will not be able to use a BGSU office computer until your departmental budget data is loaded into our computer system.  

2) Access the resource pages (Life Insurance, Health Plans, etc) to review plan details and other important information. You have the option of printing the information or viewing it electronically. Please jot down any questions you may have about your benefits and bring these questions with you to your Benefits session at OHR. Return to this page as often as you want to review benefit details; when you are ready, access the Online Benefits Enrollment page (see step 13) and review as needed the tutorials and reference guides that will guide you in making your online benefit elections.