Marriage or Domestic Partnership
Things to Consider
Update Your Pfizer Health & Insurance Coverage (if applicable)
When you get married or meet Pfizer’s requirements for an eligible domestic partnership, you can make benefit changes through a qualified life event within 31 days of your marriage or meeting Pfizer’s eligibility requirements for a domestic partnership. Pfizer allows you to cover your eligible family members, including your same or opposite sex spouse/domestic partner and their eligible children, provided they meet Pfizer’s dependent eligibility requirements.
Adding Coverage for Your Spouse/Partner
If you want to add your spouse/partner and/or their eligible children for medical, dental, vision, dependent life and/or AD&D insurance coverage, call 1-866-476-8723. Follow the Colleague Services prompts for Benefits at Fidelity to reach the Pfizer Benefits Center.
Note: If you enroll a domestic partner, you cannot update your enrollment online; you must complete the Domestic Partner Enrollment Kit and call the Pfizer Benefits Center to enroll. For additional eligibility details and enrollment instructions, refer to the Domestic Partner Enrollment Kit located in the Reference Library on netbenefits.com.
Marrying Your Domestic Partner
If you are covering your domestic partner under Pfizer’s benefits and you get married, you must notify the Pfizer Benefits Center as well as Pfizer Benefit Extras. This is important as covering a spouse allows for those benefit contributions to be made on a pre-tax basis and imputed income does not apply, which provides tax savings. For more information about this refer to the Domestic Partner Enrollment Kit located in the Reference Library on netbenefits.com.
Changing Your Coverage
You may also be able to make changes to your own coverage within that same 31-day qualified life event period, such as:
- dropping your Pfizer medical coverage if you are enrolling in your spouse or partner’s coverage
- changing your life insurance coverage
- enrolling in or increasing your Dependent Care Account election to help with adult or childcare expenses
Check Your Pfizer 401(k) Savings Plan and Financial Goals
Now is a good time to review your Savings Plan contribution, investment options and ensure your financial goals are on track. Learn more by visiting the Savings Plan and Financial Education pages.
Update Your Beneficiary Designations
Ensure that your benefits and any other personal investments are paid out based on your preference:
- Insurance and/or 401(k) Savings Plan: visit netbenefits.com > Profile > Beneficiaries.
- Health Savings Account: visit HealthEquity.com
Remember, you are always the beneficiary for any spouse/domestic partner or child life and AD&D insurance coverage you elect.
Review Your Personal and Payroll Information
It’s important to review your Pfizer payroll tax withholdings and the emergency contact information in Workday.
- Payroll and tax information: visit Fuse and click Access My Pay. Consult with a tax advisor to determine how you may be impacted.
- Personal information: visit Fuse and click Access Workday, view your Profile and update your Personal information and Contacts.
- If your marital status is changing from Single to Married, update your Marital Status on Workday.
Create or Update Your Will
Coming together to share your life with another is also an opportunity to plan for the unexpected to ensure you and your loved ones are protected. If you are enrolled in Legal Services through Pfizer Benefit Extras, you have coverage for legal services to update/create wills, a power of attorney or other important legal documents. If you are not enrolled in this benefit, you will need to wait until the next Annual Enrollment period to enroll.
Learn About Family Support Services
Pfizer offers many programs to help when caring for your family, such as full-time or back-up childcare, babysitters, a new housekeeper, or discounts to save money on everyday purchases.
Learn more about Pfizer’s Child Care and Adult/Elder Care programs, and the discounts available through Benefit Extras.
Your eligible domestic partner (same or opposite sex) is defined as a person who is:
- At least 18 years of age;
- Not related to you by blood to a degree of closeness that would prohibit legal marriage;
- Exclusively living with you and has done so for the prior 12 months with the intent to do so indefinitely;
- Not married to someone else or engaged in another domestic partnership or civil union, as applicable; and
- Financially interdependent with you.
(As of Sept. 1, 2021 or hire date if later)
Includes One-Time HealthEquity $50 Contribution
(individual/family)
