Welcome New Hires!
You’ve made a fantastic decision to join The Heritage Group family. Be sure to make your benefits selections online within 31 days of your hire date, otherwise you won’t be covered for the year. Enroll via Employee Self-Service.
- New hire benefits enrollment – Day 1-Day 31 only!: Navigation path appears on p.4 of your 2024 Benefits Guide.
don't forget! Complete your beneficiary information
- Within 10 business days of your date of hire, you'll receive a welcome letter and email from Empower Retirement, our 401(k) plan administrator, asking you to register your account and designate your beneficiaries. When you receive it, please take 10 minutes to complete these important tasks.
- Complete the account registration
- Click Account at the top of the page
- Click The Heritage Group Retirement Savings Plan and Overview
- Under Account Information on the left-hand side of the screen, click Beneficiaries
- To add your beneficiaries for your employer-paid life insurance and supplemental life insurance (if elected), log into Employee Self-Service and follow this path: Benefits Details tile, Update Beneficiaries tab, Unum Beneficiary Form link. This is a secure link from Unum, our life insurance provider.
- If you enroll in our health plan and agree to open an Optum Bank Health Savings Account (HSA), you can update your beneficiary information in your second month of employment by logging into the Empower Retirement site and following these steps:
- Click Empower HSA, Overview, and Visit website in the Account Overview box
- Continue to the HSA portal and click the Manage Beneficiaries box
