What Happens if You Don’t Enroll?

Your current elections will continue automatically except for:

  • Health Savings Account (HSA)—Your current election will not carry over, so you’ll need to elect an amount to contribute in 2021. You can do this during Benefits Open Enrollment or anytime in 2021.
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCFSA)—You must enroll during Benefits Open Enrollment if you want to contribute for 2021. Otherwise, changes are only allowed if you have a qualified life event.

Qualified Life Events Include:

  • Birth, adoption or placement for adoption
  • Marriage
  • Divorce, legal separation or annulment
  • Death of a dependent
  • Change in employment status for your spouse

You must make any changes to your medical, dental and/or DCFSA benefits within 30 days of your qualified life event, and your change must be consistent with your life event. If you miss this window, you will have to wait until the next Open Enrollment period to make changes.

To make a qualified life event change during the year, contact the Hess Benefits Center at Empyrean.

What You Need to Do to Enroll

  1. Discover Your Options

    Review all the benefits available to you on this website — the best place to find information about your benefit options.

  2. Know the Enrollment Deadline

    For medical, dental, optional life insurance, family accident insurance coverage, voluntary benefits (accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity insurance, pet insurance, legal insurance and identity theft protection), as well to contribute to a dependent care FSA, you must enroll within 30 days of when you become eligible.

    You will be automatically enrolled in long-term disability insurance, basic life insurance and business travel accident insurance, as well as the savings and pension plan. If you don’t enroll in the savings plan, you will be automatically enrolled after 30 days of employment.

    If you enroll in the Hess Medical Plan, you can establish a Health Savings Account (HSA) when you enroll for medical coverage or anytime afterwards.

  3. Decide Who to Cover

    You can enroll yourself and your family in Hess benefits. Be sure you know who’s eligible before you choose coverage.

    You are eligible if you are a full-time employee.

    You may also cover members of your family. Eligible dependents are:

    • Your spouse
    • Your same- or opposite-gender domestic partner
    • Your children through the end of the calendar year in which they reach age 26. Eligible children include:
      • Your natural and adopted children (including children placed with you for adoption)
      • Stepchildren who live with you
      • Disabled children (of any age)
      • Children for whom you have legal guardianship
      • Children of your same- or opposite-gender domestic partner
  4. Review Your Choices

    What you can chooseWhat Hess provides
    (No enrollment required)
    Medical (includes Rx and Vision)Short-Term Disability

    Long-Term Disability
    DentalBasic Life Insurance
    Family Accident Insurance Business Travel Accident Insurance
    Optional Life Insurance for you, your spouse/partner and/or dependents Savings Plan
    (After 30 days of employment if not enrolled earlier)
    Dependent Care FSAPension Plan
    Health Savings Account
    Voluntary Benefits including: Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Legal Insurance and Pet Discount Plan
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This website provides highlights of the Hess Corporation benefits plans and programs for 2025. If there is any discrepancy between the information provided on this website and the official plan documents, the official plan documents will govern. Hess reserves the right to amend or terminate the plans at its discretion at any time.