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Voluntary benefits also available online By Andy Clendennen So you're going out of town for a much-needed vacation, and you're looking for the best available deals. First, you should visit the University's Office of Human Resources benefits Web site. There, you can find a comprehensive list of vendors who offer University faculty and staff discounts on a variety of services. Need to get to Florida? American Airlines will give you a discount. How about a rental car for those times you aren't hanging out on the beach? Five major car rental firms offer cut rates. Several other services are offered as well. Employees can receive discounts on everything from home appliances to wireless communications services; from computer products to floor coverings; from airport parking to hotel accommodations. And if you can't find anything that suits your needs there, the University has entered into an agreement with YouDecide, a voluntary benefits Web site (youdecide.com) that offers benefits not typically associated with any of the University's primary benefits. These benefits are provided at no cost to the University or the employee. Voluntary benefits are intended to provide the employee with discounts for purchases of services in the following platforms: auto and home insurance, auto and home financing, financial planning, legal insurance and pet insurance. "We wanted to offer a great value-added voluntary benefits program to our most valuable asset -- our faculty and staff," said Tom Lauman, director of benefits in human resources. "Offering this program supports our philosophy of providing our employees with quality platforms, greater choice and the flexibility to customize benefit solutions to meet their life-cycle needs." The University actually started participating in the program in May 2000. Initial response and enthusiasm were high, then started waning in the past year. But given the accessibility and ease of use of the youdecide.com plan, Lauman is hoping more people become interested. "When we chose the platforms, we made sure we weren't competing with our existing plans," he said. "They do have life insurance and other benefits like long-term care, and we were specific that we only wanted to offer the platforms that didn't compete. That's how we came up with the seven that are offered." To register, go to youdecide.com/wu351; click on "Log In" at the top right-hand corner of the page; and click on "Register Now." The client ID (WU351) should already be inserted in the next screen; complete the registration form and then click "Get Started." You can also access youdecide.com through the University's human resources benefits Web site (hr.wustl.edu) by going to "Benefits" and then clicking the "Voluntary Benefits" link. For more information about voluntary benefits or help with registration, call YouDecide at (800) 746-7326. To see all the discounts offered to University faculty and staff, go to hr.wustl.edu; go to "Benefits," then click on the "Vendor Discounts" link. |
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