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This page guides you through your first 30 days and beyond, with key information to start your career and use your benefits.

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New Hire

Welcome to Schreiber!  We’re excited to have you on the team. This page is here to help you get started the right way. You can use it as a checklist during your first 30 days and beyond to make sure you complete your new hire benefits and don’t miss anything important.

First 30 Days

You must complete your new hire benefit event within 30 days of your hire date. If you do not submit on time:

  • You will not have insurance coverage
  • You will have to wait until Open Enrollment to elect coverage for next calendar year

Reminder: Budgie Health, a free tool that helps explain your benefits and compare options in simple terms, is available to help you decide which insurance plans to enroll in. (Access code: schreiber)

Enrollment Instructions

Step 1: Log into Workday

  • Check your Inbox
  • Look for: Change Benefits for Life Event
  • Click Let’s Get Started

Step 2: Choose Your Benefits

You will pick insurance coverage for yourself and your family. If anything is confusing, this page has the same presentations you saw during orientation to help explain your choices.

Adding a Family Member to Insurance

  • Click Enroll on the plan you want
  • Click Select next to the coverage you want to add them to
  • Click Confirm and Continue
  • Click Add New Dependent
  • Read the instruction message and click OK
  • Fill in all required boxes (marked with a red star *)
  • Click Save

Note: After you add a family member, their name will appear in the dependent list. For the rest of the benefits event, just check the box next to their name to add them to coverage.

👉 Important Tip: Have your family member’s Social Security Number ready. It is needed to cover them correctly. If they do not have one, contact the HR representative from your orientation for help.

Step 3: Submit Your Choices

  • When you are done enrolling in coverage click Review and Sign
  • Scroll down slowly and carefully review your selected benefits. Please ensure that all Plans, Coverage, and Dependents are showing as expected on each line. Your first date of benefit coverages are the dates listed in the Coverage Begin Date column.
  • After you have confirmed your elections, read through the electronic signature text, check the agreement box and submit your elections.

Step 4: Verify Dependents (if applicable)

If you add a spouse or a child to any insurance plan, you must upload proof (verification) documents in Workday within 30 days of hire date. 

See the dependent verification matrix for options to verify your dependent. Verification documentation can be uploaded in Workday, instructions to upload the documentation can be found here.

⚠️ If correct documents are not provided within the necessary timeframe, your family members will not be covered.

Frequently Asked Questions

I submitted my event, now what?
If you enrolled in employee-only coverage and did not add any dependents, you’re all set! No further action is needed. If you enrolled a spouse or child(ren) in any benefits, you must provide dependent verification within 30 days of your hire date (including the date of hire). Dependent verification options and instructions to submit can be found here.

How do I know my new hire event is approved and no further action is needed by me?
To verify your new hire event has been approved, check your Workday notification bell for a message indicating that your event is completed. To view your current benefit elections, go to your Workday profile and select the benefits tab. If your elected benefits are not showing or you haven’t received a notification about the completion of your event, you may need to take additional action. As a reminder, missed deductions will be caught up as applicable.

I submitted my dependent verification documents, how do I know if it was approved?
To check if your dependent(s) are verified in Workday:

    1. Log in to Workday
    2. Click your profile picture in the top right corner of the screen.
    3. Select View Profile
    4. Go to the Benefits tab
    5. Click US – Verified Dependent Status at the top of the screen
      1. A “Yes” means the dependent is verified
      2. “No” means they are not

If you elected supplemental spouse life insurance over $50k during your new hire event, Evidence of Insurability (EOI) with UNUM will need to be completed and approved before coverage can go into effect. You will receive a message in your Workday Inbox after you New Hire event is completed alerting you to start the EOI process with UNUM. Visit the Life Insurance page for additional instructions here. 

You are encouraged to start taking advantage of Schreiber’s generous retirement program upon your date of hire. To customize your enrollment, please follow the below steps.

Accessing Your Account

Beginning the Friday after your hire date, access your account any of the following three ways.

Online: www.principal.com

  • First Time User: Select Log In, then Create an account, and follow the on-screen instructions.    
  • Current User (with prior Principal accounts): Log in with existing username and password.

Principal Call Center:  1-800-547-7754 (available Monday-Friday, 7am-9pm CT)

App: Principal Mobile App

Elect Your Beneficiary

From your 401(k) account and ESOP account (if applicable), navigate to Overview, select Beneficiaries, and follow the steps.

Elect Your Contributions

From your 401(k) account, navigate to Contributions, select Manage Contributions, and enter your Base Pay and/or Bonus Pay (if applicable) contribution rates.

Options include Pretax and/or Roth contributions:

  • Pretax: You don’t pay taxes on the contributions in the year you make the contributions. Instead, you pay taxes on the contributions and earnings in the year you withdraw the funds.
  • Roth: You pay taxes on the contributions in the year you make the contributions. If certain criteria are met, the earnings on the Roth 401(k) can be withdrawn tax free.

See the Retirement Overview – Getting Started document for additional information about auto enrollment (if applicable) and setting your contributions to take advantage of the full company matching contribution.

Elect Your Investments

From your 401(k) account, navigate to Investments, select Change Investments and choose which funds you want your contributions invested in.

  • Target Date Funds: Choose the fund that most closely matches your expected retirement date.
  • 10 Single Style Funds: Choose your own diversified mix.

30 Days and Beyond

Once your new hire event is approved, your benefits will be set up in each vendor’s system within 1–2 weeks. After that, you can log in to their websites or apps to manage your benefits. Through these portals, you’ll be able to:

  • View your ID cards
  • Find in-network providers
  • Check claim status
  • Access support and other benefit details
Medical
  • Get started at UMR or Surest.
  • Registration Support:
    • Both require a HealthSafe ID:
      • Already have one? Use it to sign in.
      • New? Choose Social Security Number as your ID type.
    • Get Started with Surest (Policy Number: 78800729)
    • Get Started with UMR (Policy Number: 76415092)
Dental
  • Get started with Delta Dental to find a dentist and view your ID card.
  • Registration Support:
    • When registering, enter your Social Security Number as your Member ID.
Vision
  • Visit VSP online to access benefits and find providers.
  • Reminder: No ID card needed, providers can look you up in real time.
  • Registration Support: 
    • When registering, enter the last 4 of your Social Security Number to create your account
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Add a Beneficiary

It’s important to ensure that your HSA information is current and that you’ve selected a beneficiary. A beneficiary can be one or more individuals, for example, a spouse, children, relatives and/or friends.

If you don’t assign a beneficiary, your HSA funds will default to your legal surviving spouse, if you have one, or to your estate. If your funds are left to your estate, it may face heavier taxation. For these reasons, it’s important to keep your beneficiary information up to date. 

You can do this in 3 easy steps:

  1. Sign into your account by visiting Optum Bank. Select Settings from the black drop-down menu, then choose Beneficiaries. 
  2. Select + Add a New Beneficiary. You’ll need the date of birth and Social Security number for the individual(s) you’re adding. 
  3. Complete the online form, then select Submit.
Roll Over a Previous HSA to Optum
  1. Once your Optum Bank HSA is opened, your next step is to download and complete the HSA transfer form found here.
  2. Send your completed transfer form to your current HSA provider. (Do not send to Optum Bank)
  3. Your current HSA provider will process your transfer request and send to Optum Bank, usually within 3-6 weeks.

If you have a 401(k) account with a previous employer, you may elect to roll over any PreTax and/or Roth balances into the Schreiber 401(k). To complete the process, follow these steps:

  1. Log into your Principal account and select Rollovers and then Start your rollover now.
  2. Contact your previous employer’s recordkeeper and request a Rollover Distribution.
  3. Obtain a check made payable to: Principal Life Insurance Company, for the benefit of: (your name), Contract/plan ID: 3-32241.
  4. Mail the check to: Principal Financial Group, P.O. Box 9394, Des Moines, IA 50306-9394.

At Schreiber, we are committed to making a positive impact in the community. To support you and the causes you care about, we offer new hires a $20 credit to donate to a nonprofit of their choice* through Benevity. You can find instructions on how to get started and use the credit here. Please note that the $20 credit expires after your first 90 days of employment.

*Benevity gives you access to donate towards 501c3 nonprofit organizations.

Schreiber offers a wellness reward if you are enrolled in a Schreiber medical plan. To earn it, complete your yearly wellness exam and submit proof by November 30.

  • High-Deductible Plan: Your incentive will be deposited into your HSA.
  • Surest Plan: Your incentive will appear as taxable income on your payslip.

Please note: Spouses and children are not eligible for this incentive. For full details, visit the Wellness Incentive Plan page.

To support your health and well-being, Schreiber offers a Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) that reimburses personal expenses related to health, fitness, weight management, and mental or social health. You can be reimbursed up to $600 per year for eligible services or expenses. This program is administered by Forma and is a taxable benefit. Make sure to submit your receipts by November 30, 2026. For registration instructions and eligibility list, visit the LSA page.

If you have not yet elected a beneficiary for your Retirement benefits, we strongly encourage you to do so. To update your beneficiary, log in to your Principal account and from your 401(k) account and ESOP account (if applicable), navigate to Overview, select Beneficiaries, and follow the steps.

See the Retirement page for additional resources to help you manage your finances and reach your financial goals.

To learn more about the exciting mix of benefits available through our Total Rewards program, check out our summary of benefits.