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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Add or modify a beneficiary

As an employee, you add a beneficiary to your benefit plan from the Employee Center.

Before you begin

Role required: none

About this task

Employees can request to add or modify a beneficiary to a benefit plan by submitting a request through the Employee Center.

Alternatively, a manager can submit a tuition reimbursement request by opening an HR case: Create an HR case.

Procedure

  1. From the Employee Center menu, navigate to Human Resources > Benefits > Health and wellness.

  2. Click the Add Beneficiaries request.

  3. Complete the form.

    The fields you see depend on how the form is configured and what fields are selected to display.

FieldDescription
EmployeeThe user who submitted the case. Click the lookup icon and select the user.
ContactClick the Lookup using list to view a list of contacts for the employee.Click New to enter a new contact for the employee. You can specify the relationship to the employee and emergency contact here.
First nameFirst name of the beneficiary. Displays from Contact information.
Last nameLast name of beneficiary. Displays from Contact information.
Date of birthBeneficiary birth date.
National tax IDSocial security number of the beneficiary or tax ID number for a trust account.
TrustCheck if the beneficiary is a trust.
RelationshipRelationship to the employee.
Benefit typeType of benefit, such as, 401\(k\), Basic Life, Retirement Plan, or Voluntary Life.
Beneficiary typePrimary or contingent.
PercentagePercentage amount of the benefit distributed to the beneficiary.
  1. Click Submit.

    The system creates an HR case and assigns it to the configured HR person. View the status of your request from the My Requests tab.

Parent Topic:HR Profile