Open Enrollment

The State of Maryland provides a generous benefit package to eligible employees and retirees with a wide range of benefit options from healthcare to income protection. Here’s what’s new for 2026.

• Online benefits enrollment is mandatory for active and contractual employees who wish to make or change benefit elections for plan year 2026.
• Eligible employees may add domestic partners (same or opposite sex) and child(ren) of their domestic partner to benefit plans.
  • Eligible benefits include medical, prescription drug, dental and life insurance. 
  • Flexible Spending Account funds may not be applied to domestic partners and their child(ren).
  • Review Dependent Documentation Requirements [PDF]
• Flexible Spending Accounts require annual enrollment.
  • Healthcare FSA annual amount has increased to $3,300.
    • Healthcare funds may be used for employees and their eligible family members
  • Dependent Daycare FSA annual amount has increased to $7,500.
    • Dependent care funds may be used for daycare expenses for dependents under the age of 13
• Medicare-eligible retirees and eligible dependents must enroll in, or continue, a Medicare Part D prescription drug plan to have prescription coverage in 2026. Visit my.viabenefits.com/maryland for more information and assistance with selecting and enrolling in a Medicare Part D plan through Via Benefits.
• Access to flu shots and COVID vaccines are available at most pharmacies nationwide – $0 copay.
• REMINDER – Dependent Documentation Requirements – Newborns require a certified Birth Certificate within 60 days of birth for enrollment. See the Dependent Documentation Requirements [PDF] for more information.

Go to the State of Maryland’s enrollment website to make your benefit elections.