Employee Help
Looking for Insurance Information?
Are you an employee looking for insurance information, such as the items listed below? Please contact your HR administrator, or your insurance provider. ID Cards Claims Information Explanation of Benefits Referral Information Member Number(s) If ...
How to Enroll in Benefits
Enrolling in benefits in BerniePortal is easy and informative, but employees may need help from time to time. How employees enroll in BerniePortal: Employees will begin enrollment from their BerniePortal home page by clicking either the blue “Make ...
How to View and Update Beneficiaries
It’s important for employees to keep beneficiary information up to date. BerniePortal stores this information for your employees, and makes it easy to update throughout the year. To assist employees with updating beneficiary information: On the ...
How to View Current Elections
One of the greatest benefits of BerniePortal is the ability for employees to view all of their benefit elections, as well as any supporting documentation or websites, in one place at any time. To help employees view their current elections: From the ...
How to View SPD and General Enrollment Documents
Employees can easily view Summary Plan Descriptions (SPDs) and any General Enrollment Documents in their BerniePortal account. To help employees view SPDs and General Enrollment Documents: From the employee’s home page, select the “Benefits” tab in ...
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Login Help - Employee
It's important for employees to know how to log in to BerniePortal. An employee’s initial username and password depend on how they were added to BerniePortal. Employees can be added to BerniePortal several different ways, listed below: Via census ...
Onboarding Document Categories
Forget the stacks of paper! Your employer’s BerniePortal is already equipped with five standard onboarding documents: W-4, W-9, I-9, State Withholding, and Direct Deposit. In addition to the standard onboarding documents BerniePortal is already ...
Splitting Your Bill by Billing Subgroup
BernieBill allows you to split your monthly bill by Primary Billing Subgroup. Generating bills for each primary billing subgroup is a great option for employers who pay bills for each division, department, or location separately. To split your bill ...
Creating an Offboarding Checklist
When an employee leaves an employer, there are likely tasks that an employer must complete, such as deactivating the employee's email or collecting their equipment. Offboarding Checklists are a great way to track these tasks in BerniePortal! To ...
What is Auto-Enrollment & How to Configure Auto-Enrollment
Auto-Enrollment provides a method for employers to automatically enroll employees in plans at renewal. When it’s time to close open enrollment, employers can configure auto-enrollment settings by matching each plan and coverage tier from the “Prior ...