If your marital status changes due to a divorce (or dissolution of common-law relationship), you must remove your spouse from your extended health care plan and dental plan as they are no longer considered an eligible dependent. Your spouse can remain covered under your plan so long as you remain legally married. This would include any time you and your spouse are separated, until such a time as your divorce is finalized.

• Removing Dependants

When your marital status changes due to marriage, divorce (or dissolution of common-law relationship) or you become widowed, review your beneficiary designations for your basic group life insurance and your optional life insurance (if applicable).  Premiums paid after a divorce or dissolution of a common-law relationship will not be refunded.

• Removing Beneficiaries

Under Saskatchewan pension legislation, your spouse must be named as your primary beneficiary for pension, unless your spouse completes a spouse’s waiver of pre-retirement survivor benefit form. If your marital status changes due to a divorce (or dissolution of common-law relationship), you must contact the Pensions office in order to have your pension beneficiary changed. If you require a valuation of your pension assets for separation purposes, please contact the Pensions office.

The decision to end a relationship and go your separate ways can be one of the most emotionally challenging choices of your life. USask's Employee and Family Assistance Program offers someone to talk to and resources to consult whenever and wherever you need including:

• Confidential emotional support
• Legal guidance
• Financial resources

• Employee and Family Assistance Program