What to Expect from SDPEBA this Year – Surveys, Open Enrollment, and Newsletters

Hello SDPEBA Members!  

Happy 2023! As we settle into our new website, we wanted to take a second and update you on our plans for this year.  

New Content - Surveys  

You might have noticed in the December Newsletter that we included a survey about Open Enrollment! We plan on including a 3-4 question survey in each newsletter going forward. What are these surveys for? Basically, your responses to these surveys are to help us understand what we can do for you!  

For example, this month’s survey is about Life Insurance, one of the questions is “Do you know how to calculate how much life insurance you need?” If we have a lot of “no’s” to that question, then we’ll write an article about it! We also plan to use surveys to reflect on events and to get feedback from you.  

By taking a survey you’ll also be entered into a raffle for $50! So be sure you take each one.   

Newsletters 

Speaking of changes to the newsletter, have you seen the latest changes to ours? We had a lot of people request the ability to view older newsletters, so we are now hosting them on our website as well as emailing them out to you.  

We’re considering adding a link tree that contains all newsletters, but for now you can find them by typing in their URL directly. https://go.sdpeba.org/January2023City. The URL will always follow that format, so if you want to view last month’s newsletter you can replace January 2023 with December 2022. Note that we have three different versions of the newsletter, City, County, and Retiree. So, if you are a Retiree and want to view last October’s newsletter, you’d go to https://go.sdpeba.org/October2022Retiree.   

The team works hard to build out these pages! So be sure to check them out when they come out on the first of every month!  

Open Enrollment 

Now that we’ve shifted the City and Retiree’s open enrollment schedule to be based on the calendar year, the next Open Enrollment will take place sometime in the fall. We will let you know as soon as the dates are set!  

Just remember that this year’s plans officially start January 1st 2023, and will run until December 31st. If you have any questions or want to be pre-enrolled for plans, email [email protected].  

 

We’ve got a lot of other things in the works as well, but we’re not quite ready to announce them yet. Once they’re finished, newsletter readers will be the first to know!  

We’re very excited for everything we’ve got planned for 2023!  

-Your SDPEBA Team