This job aid shows you how to update a spouse or domestic partner’s status after an employee’s divorce or termination of domestic partnership life event.

Step 1: Click the Benefits Administrator tile on your CSU Administrator Home page.

Step 2: Ensure that you are on the Update Dependent/Beneficiary page

Step 3: Enter search criteria and then click Search.

• If the search returns only one result, the Update Dependent/Beneficiary page opens. Otherwise, select the employee to open the page.

Step 4: Click Include History.

Step 5: Open the Personal Profile page.

Step 6: Find the row that shows the Spouse or Domestic Partner.

Step 7: In the Personal History section, click Plus to add an effective dated row.

Step 8: Update the Personal History fields:

1. Effective Date
2. Relationship to Employee
3. Marital Status

If you are changing the Relationship to Employee from a Spouse or Domestic Partner to an ex-spouse or ex-domestic partner follow these guidelines, make the change after you remove the dependent from benefit plans.

• Effective Date: Make the effective-date at least one day after the coverage change effective date so the correct Relationship to Employee value prints on the Medical enrollment form.
  • Example: An employee becomes divorced effective 3/21/23.
  • The spouse has benefits coverage through 3/31/23.
  • Effective 4/1/23, the former spouse is no longer eligible for benefits coverage.
  • You need to insert a row effective dated to 4/2/23. If you we set the effective date 3/21/23, the former spouse would lose benefits coverage through 3/31/23, which is not correct.
• Relationship to Employee: Select one of the following options:
  • ExSpouse if the dependent was a spouse
  • ExDomestic Partner if the dependent was a Domestic Partner
• Marital Status: Select current the marital status of the dependent.

Step 9: Click Save.

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