Open Enrollment 2026 is coming!
Open Enrollment is the annual period when University of California retirees can enroll in benefits for the next calendar year. If you don’t act during Open Enrollment, you’ll continue your current health coverage, but your costs will likely change. Learn all about your benefits here. Additional information, such as plan changes, as well as tools and resources to assist with this year’s benefits choices, will be shared as soon as it becomes available.
Please read a message from Cheryl Lloyd, vice president of Systemwide Human Resources, about cost increases in medical plan premiums for 2025. In her letter to the UC community, Vice President Lloyd discusses the significant changes in 2025 health plans and what UC is doing for 2026.
UCLA Health Care Facilitator Open Enrollment Help Desks
The Zoom help desk sessions are run in a Live Q&A format and are offered during Open Enrollment period. We highly encourage you to listen to the prerecorded OE presentation, which contains all the details about OE and highlights any recent changes. This will help us use our time more efficiently and allow you to bring forward any remaining questions you may have. The prerecorded presentation will be added here near Open Enrollment time.
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November 6, 2025 (9am - 10am) - Click Here to Register
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November 13, 2025 (5pm - 6pm) - Click Here to Register
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November 20, 2025 (11am - 12pm) - Click Here to Register
NOTE: The UCLA Health Care Facilitator (HCF) is here to assist with escalated medical, dental and vision plan issues that you have not been able to resolve on your own. The HCF is not your first point of contact for any issue. If you have questions about your retiree check, questions about plan premiums, or enrollment process or eligibility issues (such as your plan says you and/or your dependent(s) are not covered), please contact the Retirement Administration Service Center (RASC) at 800-888-8267 or log into UCRAYS to contact RASC customer service from within the portal. UC retiree plans are maintained by RASC. RASC is responsible for resolving your eligibility and enrollment issues when you have retiree coverage.
Open Enrollment with Kaiser Permanente
This year, the ERRC is partnering with Kaiser Permanente to offer Open Enrollment webinars specifically for retirees who are enrolled in or interested in enrolling in the Kaiser Permanente plans.
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October 30, 2025 (10am) - Click Here to Register
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November 17, 2025 (2pm) - Click Here to Register
Contacts:
- Retirement Administration Service Center (RASC)
- 800-888-8267
- UCLA Health Care Facilitators
- HCFHelp@chr.UCLA.edu
Additional Resources:
- Retiree Medical Plans: Changes and choices
- Retirees Plan Costs
- Medicare Fact Sheet
- Which Medicare Plan is right for you?
Helpful Links
- UC Retirees
- UC Medical Plan Contacts
- Medicare & Your UC Medical Plan
- Medicare Information - View all of ERRC's Medicare-related resources and register for RASC's weekly office hours and monthly presentations.
If you have any questions about the retiree help desks and Zoom webinars, please contact the ERRC by email at emeriti@errc.ucla.edu or call 310-825-7456.