HR Scoop - February 2026

HR/Payroll Updates
 

Health Plan & Other Benefits

On Site Clinic Promotion
Healthy lifestyle choices lead to effective weight management. What choices can you make to positively affect your weight? Schedule an appointment to learn about tips on preventing over-eating, moving your body regularly, and developing good sleep and stress management habits.

Benefit Guide and HR Website
We encourage employees to use the resources available to them.  The Benefit Guide encompasses all of our employee benefits with direct and applicable links to information on our website.  Also, the HR Website is a great resource for any question you may have regarding payroll, policies, employee benefits, and other items.

Navigating Benefit Plans
Have questions about how deductibles work? Wondering if you’re getting the most cost-effective medication or fully using your dental benefits? Curious about hearing aid discount programs?  Contact Jesse Albers in Human Resources to schedule a time to meet (email: jesse.albers@snc.edu or call 403-3982).

Flexible Spending - Incurring and Submitting Expenses

For those of you participating in the Flexible Spending Plan for 2025, please remember that you must incur expenses on or before 12/31/25 in order for that expense to qualify for reimbursement with the plan year of 1/1/25 – 12/31/25. The due date to submit expenses is always 90 days (3/31/26) after the end of the plan year (12/31/25). If you don’t submit expenses before 3/31/26, you will not be eligible for reimbursement.

Rollover Provision - any unused amount (but not more than $660) remaining at the end of a Plan Year in a Participant’s Flexible Spending Health Care Account will be carried over to (and be available for reimbursements of qualifying Health Care Expenses incurred in) the following Plan Year with no effect on the run-out period ONLY if you are also enrolled in the next plan year. Please contact Associated Bank at 1-800-270-7719 for help on claims or reimbursements.

1095C Tax Forms
1095-C forms will be available via Workday around mid February.  The 1095-C form includes information about the health insurance coverage offered to you by St. Norbert College. As part of the Paperwork Burden Reduction Act passed December 2024, SNC is no longer required to send these forms but will still be required to have them available if a person wants to view or print their form.  You do not need this form to file your taxes!

Critical Illness
Reminder - The College pays for Critical Illness insurance for only those on the HDHP Plans to help with the costs of certain major life/medical events.  This will help ease the financial burden of medical bills for conditions/diagnosis of Heart Attack, Kidney Failure, Stroke, Coronary Artery Bypass, Cancer, and many more.   Critical Illness Insurance doesn’t replace your medical coverage; instead, it complements it. The benefit payments don’t go out to pay for medical bills or treatments you may need, instead they come in— directly to you—to be used however you’d like. Up to $10,000 may be available for covered conditions and diagnoses.  Please click this link to learn more.

Questions?
Email hr@snc.edu or call the main office line at 920-403-3211.