FAU Offers Benefits to Faculty, Administrative Managerial Professionals (AMP), and Support Personnel (SP) Employees.

Benefits and Retirement

吃瓜网 offers benefits to Faculty, Administrative Managerial Professional (AMP), and Support Personnel (SP) employees. These benefits may include paid annual and sick leave, holidays, state and university sponsored insurance programs, and retirement. OPS assignments may be eligible for state sponsored benefits, including health insurance. OPS benefit eligibility is determined by People First.

New Faculty, Administrative Managerial Professional (AMP), and Support Personnel (SP) employees have only the FIRST 60 CALENDAR DAYS OF EMPLOYMENT to enroll in the insurance plans. The available retirement plan selection is the SUSORP (, ), FRS Pension, or FRS Investment, which all have a mandatory three percent employee contribution. AMP may elect one of the three plans; SP can elect FRS Pension or FRS Investment, and Postdoctoral employees may only enroll in the SUSORP. Visit to learn more about FRS Pension (defined benefit plan) and FRS Investment (defined contribution plan).

After the initial new hire enrollment period, employees may only enroll or make changes to their coverage during the annual Open Enrollment period in the fall. You may be allowed to make certain changes to your coverage if you experience a Qualifying Status Change (QSC) event (e.g., marriage, divorce, birth or adoption of a child, etc.). You must notify the People First Service Center within 60 days of the QSC.

Employees are eligible for health insurance coverage on the first day of the month following their date of hire. However, the effective date of coverage will depend on the date the enrollment is completed and the required premiums are paid. The effective dates of coverage are always the first of a month, and no coverage will be updated with the insurance carrier until premiums are received by People First.

Announcements

Voluntary Retirement Savings Plan

Starting this November, your Voluntary Retirement Savings Plan will be easier to manage with a streamlined list of providers, consistency in investment products and services, and one online portal for ease of access to your account information and support.聽

If you have questions, please contact Benefits and Retirement at 561-297-5555.

Benefits Directory

Related Information for Health Plans

  • 鈥� New Hire Measurement Period and Open Enrollment Measurement Period
  • 鈥� People First does report on a month-by-month basis to the Federal Internal Revenue Service employees who were offered coverage, enrolled in coverage, and declined coverage.

Benefits Team

Benefits and Retirement Contacts

To contact Benefits and Retirement, please email benefits@fau.edu or call 561-297-5555.

Frequently Asked Questions

No, you must wait until the Open Enrollment period to begin to make new selections or make changes. If you experience a Qualifying Event, you will be eligible to make changes. Pet and Legal Insurance can be enrolled in at any time during the year.

OPS employees qualify for benefits if they are classified as a Full Time Employees. If an OPS employee works below 30 hours, they would not be benefit eligible.

Measurement Period as it relates to benefits, counts hours of service to determine eligibility. If you are determined to be eligible for coverage, a benefits package showing your available options will be mailed to you from People First. More information can be found in the Benefits Guide on pages 13 and 14.


You must log in to People First to add your beneficiaries. Should you need assistance with the portal, you can call People First directly at 866-663-4735.

People First Access: PeopleFirst.myflorida.com > Enter your People First ID and password. Your People First ID can be found in Workday in the Personal Tab > Additional Data. Enter your password.

You will need to update your address in Workday. Every Wednesday information from Workday is integrated with People First. If you do not see your information updated after the following Wednesday, please contact the Benefits team at benefits@fau.edu so that a correction form can be submitted on your behalf to People First.

Yes, you may log in to your People First account to update your name and upload supporting documentation. The change with People First is expected to take effect within 3-5 business days. Following the change, you will receive new insurance ID cards.

FTE means Full Time Equivalent. If your FTE falls below 0.75 you would not qualify for benefits. Please email benefits@fau.edu for more information.

Your benefits would continue until the last day of the following month.
Please contact the Benefits team at benefits@fau.edu to understand how coverage ends.

Please visit to view the Insurance Provider list. There will be a website and contact information there. You can set up an online account through the insurance website and obtain temporary ID cards.

This is a benefit offered to eligible FAU employees that allows for enrollment of up to 6 credit hours of undergraduate or graduate instruction per term after 6 months of employment. Please visit EESP for more information or you can email benefits@fau.edu

Employees must be full-time or part-time employees with one or more years of service and a minimum of 64 unused sick leave hours to apply. Participation is voluntary and must be elected. Please see the policy for more information: Sick Leave Pool Policy

If 26 weeks have not passed since your most recent termination date, your benefits would continue, and you wouldn鈥檛 need to elect any. If you do not wish to receive benefits, you would need to submit documentation to People First showing proof of cover elsewhere.

You may find this form here: FAU Forms 鈥� Upon completion of this form, please email it to benefits@fau.edu

From February to May, you would have been double-deducted for insurance benefits so that you will be covered from June to September. For more information, please email benefits@fau.edu or find our contact information here: FAU Benefits

You may fill out the State of 吃瓜网 Deferred Compensation Plan form and open an account with one of the retirement partners. Please visit for more information or email benefits@fau.edu

You can email Payroll at payroll@fau.edu or call directly at 561-297-6401. Their website is /controllers-office/payroll/contact/. Our Payroll team can answer any W2, Direct Deposit, Absence Balances, and Tax related questions.

Log in to Workday. From your Workday landing page, click on Menu at the top left. Scroll to Pay. Select Withholding Elections to make your changes.