{"id":13365,"date":"2025-09-16T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/?p=13365"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:22:08","slug":"making-changes-to-benefits-with-a-life-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/2025\/09\/16\/making-changes-to-benefits-with-a-life-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Changes to Benefits with a Life Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2025\/09\/undefined.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13366\" src=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2025\/09\/undefined.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2025\/09\/undefined.png 300w, https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2025\/09\/undefined-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/370\/2025\/09\/undefined-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Each year during Open Enrollment, you can make changes to your NCFlex pre-tax benefits for the upcoming plan year or re-enroll in your Flexible Spending Accounts. Open Enrollment for 2026 will be held October 13-31, 2025.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Curious about making changes outside of Open Enrollment? Aside from Open Enrollment, you can only make changes to NCFlex benefits with a\u202f<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiuvas9ab.cc.rs6.net%2Ftn.jsp%3Ff%3D001EqKuf2qy1xvg5GgW8q_WIFb-LWMPRvZRGpTZFt3NAMz_5KnLLbLxbbPRHN_F-dGFc4VUrzAVMO3jYfiqVdz-sPPYmSqnqq_sUP7bGQSbv2oLPNfKA6R2d6XIB1tC7DD00ETPhMfSGi1Mq0umOD-bs_Bmsdikb8q67Z9_e6W3pM-Pdt7uTDeL4Nc1h2yF1rhKZl_C7bFoSJ_iK6vHliIh7Ig4T3uWA5P4zryCPyAUNAqDpx7crsa-Um1NOARVvo3Mv57o3j6cpLATJ6nr1RW6sQ%3D%3D%26c%3DsaM113Swa8UKLFbWZLY-IAuRr6ZzZtGHi5xFca2AABXhOF6fY2asHg%3D%3D%26ch%3DIjzn_FTqhIR68b0zv7BkCpfEebDOztwGTDycKDwFbTWEWIXjO2VktQ%3D%3D&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ccmaccallum%40email.wcu.edu%7C58b41e90928a4ac1419208ddcb778768%7Cc5b35b5a16d544148ee17bde70543f1b%7C0%7C0%7C638890436412646350%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=xSYh4vIdeGtvPD7BO79Fkc%2BhojwbSqzi0vxR1LyNUTE%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Qualifying Life Event<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202f(QLE) unless you are a new hire or are newly eligible. If you experience a QLE, you have 30 days to change your benefits.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year during Open Enrollment, you can make changes to your NCFlex pre-tax benefits for the upcoming plan year or re-enroll in your Flexible Spending Accounts. Open Enrollment for 2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13367,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365\/revisions\/13367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/staffsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}