HPInc is the overall legal successor to Hewlett-Packard and to companies acquired by Hewlett-Packard before Nov 1, 2015 – Compaq, EDS, etc. – regardless of whether a business unit ended up in HPInc or HPE.  For employees of HP -- and predecessor companies -- who left before the HPInc/HPE separation, responsibility for any health or retirement benefits varies from country to country, depending on employee population. For the US, HPInc has responsibility. For Canada and UK, HPE has responsibility. In many countries, plans were split between HP Inc and HPE. See: https://www.hpalumni.org/WhichCompany

Received a "Potential Private Retirement Benefit" letter from U.S. Social Security? How to decode and who to contact: https://www.hpalumni.org/PotentialBenefitLetter

For details of a U.S. employer retirement or health plan, obtain a copy of the legal Summary Plan Description ("SPD"). Log into the plan administrator's website or call. They are required by law to provide the SPD upon request. The current SPD takes precedence over any other written, online, or verbal information you may be given -- but is still subject to change. https://www.hpalumni.org/SPD-decode

DEC Retiree Health Program:

- The benefits originally promised assumed continued high profit levels.

- DEC retirees report that Compaq (which never had a retiree health program for its own employees) -- and now HP (which had a much-less-generous program) -- have lived up to DEC's U.S. retiree healthcare commitments.

- Of HPInc's many predecessor companies, only HP and DEC ever had US retiree healthcare programs -- setting aside money over the years in dedicated trust funds. Employees of other acquisitions did not get credit under HP's long-service retiree healthcare program for service at the predecessor -- but generally did get service credit for other benefits. Details: https://www.hpalumni.org/health

- If you were on a DEC U.S. retiree health program -- which was closed to new participants years before the company was sold to Compaq -- you are on an HP Inc retiree health program.

- We have a copy of HP's official table to determine if you are qualified for health coverage. https://www.hpalumni.org/Pre2003

- Call the HP Inc Benefits Center. Start at 1-800-890-3100. (Outside US, Puerto Rico, Canada 1-847-883-0465) https://www.myhpbenefits.com Ask for a "Retirement Specialist"

- Annual Benefits Enrollment. Details and advice from members: https://www.hpalumni.org/EnrollmentGuides

- Why HP group plan costs are going up. hpalumni.org/health-cost

- Join the HPAlumni Benefits Forum Covers topics such as COBRA and retiree health benefits, annual enrollment, and transition to Medicare.