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WHAT IF I...?
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Get Married
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IMPORTANT: Be sure to enroll your
spouse and any eligible dependent children for benefits within 31 days
of your marriage. Otherwise, you will have to wait until the next open
enrollment period.
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Review your spouse’s benefits. If your spouse
is covered under a benefit plan, you should review his or her benefits
for coordination of coverage and determine which plan best meets
your family needs.
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Enroll your spouse and/or dependents for benefits.
Your spouse and any eligible dependents can receive:
- Review FSA contributions. You may begin, stop or
change the amount of your contribution to a:
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Health Care Spending Account, and/or
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Dependent Care Spending Account. (If you join this plan, Valassis
will match your contributions, dollar-for-dollar, up to the
first $600 you contribute for a total annual contribution of
$5,000 if you are single and file as head of household or married
and file jointly; $2,500 if you are married and file separately).
You must be hired by 10/1 to be eligible for the company contribution
for the next year.
- Consider adjusting your voluntary life insurance coverage
(evidence of insurability is required to increase coverage
more than one level).
- Review your designated beneficiaries. You may change
your beneficiaries for:
- Basic and Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Retirement Savings Plans
Valassis Communications, Inc. and NCH Associates Paid Through ADP
- To designate or change a beneficiary for your life insurance, complete
the beneficiary
designation form and submit it to your HR Representative. To designate
or change a beneficiary for the Retirement Savings Plan, complete
the beneficiary designation form and submit it to your HR Representative.
Valassis Direct Mail and Sales & Marketing Associates Paid Through
PeopleSoft - To designate or change a beneficiary, sign onto www.valassisbenefits.com
and choose the "Enroll or Make Changes" option in the upper
right hand corner. You are automatically the beneficiary for any life
insurance you elect for your spouse and children. You may also complete
a life
insurance beneficiary designation form or one for the retirement
plan and submit it to the Associate Resource Center.
- Consider changing tax withholdings.
Valassis Communications, Inc. and NCH Associates Paid Through ADP
- Make changes to your W-4
and submit it to the payroll department.
Valassis Direct Mail and Sales & Marketing Associates Paid
Through PeopleSoft - Make changes to your W-4
and submit it to payroll. You can also complete it electronically
through the Web using Employee Self Service (ESS), which is accessible
through the associate portal.
- Consider changing Retirement Savings Plan contributions.
You may change your contribution amount or begin contributing to the
Retirement Savings Plan.
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Notify Valassis of emergency information. You
should inform Valassis of any changes in your name, address or emergency
notification information by contacting your Human Resources Representative.
Valassis Direct Mail and Sales & Marketing associates paid through
PeopleSoft should contact the Associate Resource Center at 1-877-238-6847.
- Consider revising or drafting a will.
 
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