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Menu: Benefits and Medicare topics for HP
and HPE alumni
Advice and reference info from members. The HP Alumni
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or supported.
Received a "Potential Private Retirement Benefit" letter from Social Security? How to decode the letter and who to contact, if necessary:
Potential Benefit letter
If you have paper stock certificates. What to do:
Stock Certificates
If leaving or recently left, use our ASAP Checklist
Medicare Menu (Whether or not receiving benefits from HP or HPE.) If transitioning to Medicare soon, you have a lot of homework to do!
Health insurance - from company or otherwise. Heads up! Contact directories. Future of retiree healthcare. How to escalate. Dental.
COBRA Health benefits continuation -- including premium assistance under the American Rescue Plan.
Comparing health plans. Carefully compare plan details -- especially between similar-sounding group and individual plans.
Which Company You may be a retiree or former employee of more that one HP-related company.
Which health program Depending on age, years of service, and other factors, you may qualify for the "Pre-2003 HP Retiree Medical Program" -- as opposed to the current "HP Retiree Medical Program." ("2003" refers to the year when HP implemented the program, not necessarily your year of retirement.)
Enrollment Guides Searchable copies of the Annual Enrollment Guides for HP, HPE, and DEC.
Benefits Centers and Alight Medicare Phone numbers for HP and HPE.
What I wish I had known before layoff, retirement, or leaving -- based on input from dozens of HPAA members.
Finance issues Including stock, pension, 401(k) ...
Employee stock You may now have stock in HP, HPE, Agilent, Keysight, or DXC in various accounts – and may not have received cash payouts for Micro Focus and Perspecta. Due to spinoffs and splits, current cost basis depends on when you acquired each block of shares. Members have found that plan administrators, transfer agents, and brokerages vary significantly in how (or if) they track gain/loss and cost basis for the many complex HP-related stock events -- and what (if anything) they report to the IRS. Stock Recovery and Cost Basis
Discounts Advice and reference info from members.
Contacts for former employees. Member advice: stock records, employment and salary verification, Payroll. W-2, HP and HPE Retirement Service Centers, HP and HPE Benefits Centers, etc.
Insurance programs. Company-subsidized insurance programs, Insurance discount programs marketed using company facilities and communication channels. Group Legal Services. Death benefit.
Retiree gold badge. Now symbolic only. (At some older sites, may be useful for discounts at some local businesses.)
Related Companies. Member advice for people from acquired or spinoff companies: Agilent Autonomy Compaq DEC DXC EDS Keysight Micro Focus Perspecta Tandem Other acquisitions and spinoffs
Death or disability of a former employee. Stock, pension, dependent health coverage, and other issues: Member advice
HPAA Benefits Forum. Covers topics such as COBRA and retiree health benefits, annual enrollment, and transition to Medicare. Join the HPAA Benefits Forum.
Join our forums. If formerly a regular, direct U.S. employee of HP or HPE -- or in the process of leaving. We welcome others who could benefit from our forums and updates: spouses/partners, those receiving company benefits -- dependents, DEC and EDS retirees -- and heirs with HP/HPE-related stock. No charge, thanks to HPAA's Supporting Members. Join at hpalumni.org/join
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