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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><b>September 11, 2025<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">Department Benefits Representatives (DBRs)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">Central HR Benefits Office on behalf of UC Office of the President</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><b>Medicare While Still Employed Communications</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><b>DBRs, please share this information via your internal listserv.
<u>Do not reply to this email.</u> Please send a separate email with questions to
</b><a href="mailto:benefits@ucr.edu"><b>benefits@ucr.edu</b></a><b>.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">UCOP recently reinstated the mailing of “Medicare While Still Employed” communications to actively working employees and their enrolled spouse/domestic partner who will be aging into Medicare.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">The “Medicare While Still Employed” letter, last distributed in 2017, provides background information on Medicare and guidance to UC employees and their covered spouses/domestic partners who
will be aging into Medicare and covered under a UC-sponsored employer group medical coverage. The communication also includes special considerations for Domestic Partners and Health Savings Plan members.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">The data for the mailing of information will be pulled from UCPath on the 5<sup>th</sup> of each month based on enrollments from the prior month (i.e., the letter on September 5<sup>th</sup> will
be sent to any member, spouse or domestic partner enrolled in August). A separate letter is sent to each enrolled individual aging into Medicare.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">The mailing file criteria will only target:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Active employees and/or their enrolled spouse/domestic partner<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
Aged 64 years and 7 months<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">This information will be issued on an ongoing basis. There will be no catch-up letters to those over 65.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">No action is required from the enrolled member. The letter serves as an educational resource and includes links to additional information.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal">For specific questions, please contact the <a href="https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/benefits/understanding-your-benefits/personalized-support/rasc/" target="_blank">UC Retirement Administration
Service Center</a> (RASC) or the UC Riverside Campus Health Care Facilitator, Ranada Palmer, at
<a href="mailto:ranada.palmer@ucr.edu">ranada.palmer@ucr.edu</a> for further guidance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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