Life Events

A quick checklist of decisions to make and forms to file when changes in your working life or your personal life result in changes in your benefits.

• BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION CHANGES
• CHANGE IN EMPLOYMENT STATUS
  • Increase/decrease in percent of appointment
  • Classified to Unclassified or Unclassified to Classified
  • Becoming WRS-eligible
• CHILDREN AND DEPENDENTS
  • New child in the family
  • Child loses dependent status
• DEATH
  • Death of employee
  • Death of spouse or child
• DISABILITY AND SERIOUS ILLNESS
• DIVORCE OR SEPARATION
• LAYOFF
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• MARRIAGE
• MILITARY CALL-UP
• MOVING  (Transferring  from one UW campus to another or changing your county of residence)
• RETIREMENT
• RETURN TO WORK after retirement
• TERMINATION

This document was last revised on May 24, 2010