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 2025.

• Online benefits enrollment is mandatory for active and contractual employees who wish to make or change benefit elections for plan year 2025.
• 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 an annual enrollment.
  • Healthcare FSA annual amount has increased to – $3,200.
    • Healthcare funds may be used for employees and their eligible family members
  • Dependent Daycare FSA annual amount is unchanged – $5,000.
    • Dependent care funds may be used for daycare expenses for dependents under the age of 13
• MedImpact is the new Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM).
• State-provided prescription drug coverage for Medicare-eligible retirees is changing on January 1, 2025. Medicare-eligible retirees must enroll in a Medicare Part D prescription drug plan to have prescription coverage in 2025. Visit my.viabenefits.com/maryland for more information and assistance with selecting and enrolling in a Medicare Part D plan.
• 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.