Active Employee Information

Open Enrollment will continue through Saturday, November 30. All changes to coverage will be effective January 1, 2025. Active employees are encouraged to review their benefits and review and update their life insurance beneficiaries in Workday. If you do not need to make any changes during Open Enrollment, your elections will automatically carry over to 2025. Flexible spending accounts require re-enrollment every year.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Baltimore County has approved one contribution structure for active employee health insurance. Effective January 1, 2025, all active employees will pay the same rate regardless of date of hire.

OTHER ITEMS TO CONSIDER

  • Increase additional life by $10,000, up to $200,000 with no health questions.
  • Enroll in New York Life voluntary long-term disability (VLTD) with no health questions. While you can’t predict the future, you can plan for the unexpected. Choosing VLTD with New York Life can provide financial security, well-being and peace of mind. Long-term disability insurance pays benefits when you’re disabled due to a covered injury or illness, and are unable to work.

  • Consider additional voluntary benefits through MWE. MWE offers employees a full array of voluntary benefits, which may fill potential gaps in your County-sponsored benefits. Their menu options include short-term disability (STD), accident, hospital and life insurance with long-term care, which can be continued in retirement. 

  • Review and update your life insurance beneficiary through your Open Enrollment Event in Workday.  

  • Explore the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and work/life support program, which are administered by Cigna and available to County employees working 26 or more hours per week, retirees under age 65, and anyone who resides in the home of a County employee or retiree under age 65. EAP is available 24/7. Connect through myCigna.com. Employer ID: baltimore or call 1-888-431-4334.

Meetings

Meetings will give employees the opportunity to meet individually with plan representatives, and will include plan materials and promotional items, as well as healthy lifestyle information. The following vendors will be available to answer questions:

  • CareFirst
  • Cigna
  • Kaiser
  • MWE Partnership
  • National Vision Administrators (NVA)
  • Nationwide
  • Voya Financial
Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

About Your Plans

Learn more about the details of your Baltimore County benefits plan and how to make changes.

2025

2024

Enroll with Workday

All life events (marriage, birth/adoption, loss of coverage, etc.) must be completed using Workday. Use your County-assigned login (username@baltimorecountymd.gov) and password as your Workday username and password.

  1. Select the Menu option in the upper lefthand corner.

  2. Select Benefits and Pay.

  3. Select Change Benefits.

  4. Select your Reason for Change (marriage, birth/adoption, loss of coverage, etc.)

  5. Enter the event date.

  6. Upload the appropriate documentation for the change (e.g. marriage/birth certificate). Documentation is required to proceed.

  7. Select Submit and navigate through the enrollment process.

Review Your Beneficiaries

It's important to update your beneficiary designations as your life situation changes (e.g., marriage, divorce, death, birth of a child, etc.) to ensure that your life insurance proceeds are paid to the appropriate persons. This beneficiary change is limited to your County life insurance plans only. Other plans that you have require a separate beneficiary change, including beneficiary elections for the Employee Retirement System, Deferred Compensation and Pension.

All life insurance beneficiary designations must be completed using Workday. Use your County-assigned login (username@baltimorecountymd.gov) and password as your Workday username and password.

  1. Select the Menu option in the upper left hand corner.

  2. Select Benefits and Pay.

  3. Select Change Benefits.

  4. Select the Change Reason as Change Beneficiaries.

  5. Enter the event date (use today’s date).

  6. Upload appropriate documentation, if desired. 

  7. Select Submit and navigate through the enrollment process.

THE MWE PARTNERSHIP

Baltimore County Government has partnered with The MWE Partnership to offer employees a full array of voluntary benefits, which may fill potential gaps in your County-sponsored benefits.  Their menu options include Short-Term Disability (STD), Accident, Hospital, and Life Insurance with Long-Term Care, which can be continued in retirement. 

For more information or to schedule an appointment with an MWE Benefits Counselor, call 410-394-9617.