A significant change in your life, known as a qualifying life event (QLE), may allow you to enroll, drop coverage, or add or drop dependents from coverage during the year. Outside of a qualifying life event, you can only make benefit changes during the annual open enrollment period in the fall.  The change must be consistent with your life event.

You have 30 days from the date of the QLE to change your benefit elections and provide the document to verify the change.

Verifying Your Life Event

Life Event Document Needed
Birth Government-issued birth certificate or hospital birth record
Marriage Government-issued marriage certificate
Divorce / Legal Separation Divorce decree or legal separation agreement
Adoption / Legal Guardianship Document of adoption or document of legal guardianship / custody
Loss of Employee’s / Spouse’s / Child’s Other Coverage A letter from employer, Medicaid / CHIP, the public health care exchange, Medicare, etc., showing:

  • Type of coverage lost,
  • Dependent(s) who were covered (if applicable), and
  • Date coverage ended.
Gain of Employee’s / Spouse’s / Child’s Other Coverage A letter from employer, Medicaid / CHIP, the public health care exchange, Medicare, etc., showing:

  • Type of coverage gained,
  • Dependent(s) who are being covered (if applicable), and
  • The date coverage began.
Death of a Spouse / Child Death certificate
Medicare Eligibility Proof of gain / loss of Medicare benefits

Making Benefit Changes

Go to the Jabil Benefits Service Center > Birth, Marriage, or other Life Event to get started with your benefit changes. Learn more about changing your benefits during the year and submitting the required documents. It may take a while for you to get certain documents, so plan accordingly.

Need help? Call 877.525.2363 (877.JBL.BENE). Need help in another language? When you first call, you have the option to speak to a representative in English or Spanish. Once connected, the representative can have a translator join the call if another language is needed.