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Menu: Benefits and Medicare topics for HP
and HPE alumni
Advice and reference info from members. The HP Alumni
Association is operated by volunteers. Not officially endorsed
or supported.
Received a "Potential Private Retirement Benefit" letter from U.S. Social Security? How to decode the letter and who to contact, if necessary:
Potential Benefit letter
If dealing with possible layoff, considering retirement, or recently left. Practical advice from HP/HPE alumni who have gone through past cycles – including action to quietly take now even if not expecting to leave. Leaving HP or HPE
HPAA Benefits Forum. Covers topics such as COBRA and retiree health benefits, annual enrollment, and transition to Medicare. Join the HPAA Benefits Forum.
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.
Enrollment Guides Searchable copies of the Annual Enrollment Guides for HP, HPE, and DEC.
Benefits Centers and AlightRHS Phone numbers for HP, HPE, and AlightRHS.
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 Due to the breakup of HP, you may now have shares in HPInc, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Agilent, Keysight, and DXC – held in multiple accounts – and may not have received cash payouts for Micro Focus or Perspecta. HPAA members have developed a step-by-step process to find all of your HP/HPE-related stock – and estimate employee stock purchase cost basis. Stock
Discounts Advice and reference info from members.
Worldwide 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. 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
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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