HPInc is the overall legal successor to Hewlett-Packard Company and to companies acquired 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 HPInc and HPE. See: https://www.hpalumni.org/WhichCompany

Received a "Potential Private Retirement Benefit" letter from U.S. Social Security? Saw an ad about unclaimed property? 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 predecessors, only HP and DEC ever built retiree healthcare trust funds. Employees of other acquisitions generally did get service credit for retiree benefits. Depending on your age and history with HP and predecessors, you may qualify for either the former, current, or DEC retiree medical plan. (For the more-generous former plan -- confusingly named "Pre-2003" -- you must have been born on or before June 30, 1957 -- unless your were in certain EER cycles or otherwise notified.) See detailed rules in the Summary Plan Description: https://www.hpalumni.org/HPIncHealthSPD.pdf  If rules were misapplied or HP's records were in error, members have successfully appealed -- see page 40 of the SPD for the contact at Corporate. Search for the predecessor company in the SPD. (Ctrl-F, F3, or Command-F.)

- 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

- This topic is discussed on the HPAlumni Benefits Forum Covers topics such as COBRA and retiree health benefits, annual enrollment, and transition to Medicare.