{"id":619,"date":"2016-05-02T21:24:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T04:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/benefits\/?page_id=619"},"modified":"2025-12-15T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:24:11","slug":"orientation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/benefits\/orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits orientation and summaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uwhr-child-pages\"><div class=\"uwhr-child-page\"><h4 class=\"h6 m-b-0 m-t-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/benefits\/orientation\/summaries\/\">Benefit summaries<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right m-l-xs\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><p>Learn about the benefits UW provides to its employees.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"uwhr-child-page\"><h4 class=\"h6 m-b-0 m-t-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/benefits\/orientation\/welcome-day\/\">Welcome Day: Benefits orientation<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right m-l-xs\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><p>Join us to learn more about your excellent benefits package and get your questions answered<\/p><\/div><div class=\"uwhr-child-page\"><h4 class=\"h6 m-b-0 m-t-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwhr\/benefits\/orientation\/\">Online benefits orientation for newly eligible employees<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right m-l-xs\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><p>If you can't make it to the in-person orientation, use the online version to learn more about you benefits and enroll.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"uwhr-child-page\"><h4 class=\"h6 m-b-0 m-t-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/benefits\/orientation\/plan-administrators\/\">Plan administrators<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right m-l-xs\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><p>Contact information for all UW benefit plan administrators<\/p><\/div><div class=\"uwhr-child-page\"><h4 class=\"h6 m-b-0 m-t-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/benefits\/retirement-plans\/nearing-retirement\/\">Nearing retirement<i class=\"fa fa-angle-right m-l-xs\"><\/i><\/a><\/h4><p>Continuing your insurance; Registering for retirement workshops; Making a plan for your retirement; Getting a retiree ID card; Cashing out sick leave; Reemployment<\/p><\/div><div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about your excellent benefits package and get your questions answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1284,"parent":0,"menu_order":90,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-619","page","type-page","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","search_bucket-page"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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