New Employees

Welcome to the State of Minnesota

Benefits are part of your pay. They help protect your health, your money, and your future.

You Have a Deadline

You must sign up for or decline benefits by a set date.

SEGIP will mail you a personal enrollment form. If you do not get it, contact SEGIP right away. The form and your contract, explain enrollment deadlines and other details. Contact SEGIP if you need help.

Sign up for Your Benefits

Use the personal enrollment form to help you choose your benefits.
Most new employees enroll in Self Service.
Most employees who left state service and were rehired enroll in Self Service.
If you are eligible for insurance because your job status changed, use the paper enrollment form in the packet sent to your home. Complete the form. Send it to SEGIP by mail, email, or fax.

How to Enroll in Self Service
1. Go to Self Service. It’s the website where you enter your time if your work for a state agency.
2. Enter your eight-digit employee ID as your user ID. Your HR office will give this to you.
3. Enter your temporary password from HR.
4. On the main menu, choose Benefits.
- Select Benefits Enrollment.
- Choose the benefits you want.
You do not need a paper form.

See your New Employee Benefits enrollment packet for instructions and details. There is a packet for state employees and a for IBU employees. Contact SEGIP if you need help.
If You Miss Your Deadline
1. SEGIP enrolls you in single medical coverage and basic life insurance.
2. Payroll deducts your share of the premium from your paycheck.
3. You can sign up for dental, vision, legal, disability, or life insurance and pre-tax expense during Open Enrollment. You may be able to sign up outside of Open Enrollment if you experience a life event that qualifies you to make specific changes.
Other Benefits
Take part in activities to support your well-being. Activities address emotional, social, financial, and physical well-being. You’ll find:
Join WebMD ONE to find help to stay positive, push through challenges, and make healthy progress on your personal goals.

Also, you and the people you live with can get counseling and help with everyday life through LifeMatters.These services are offered through the Employee Assistance Program.
- Go to Self Service, select the Benefits tile, then Passwords, Contacts. You will find passwords, phone numbers, contacts and other details about using your benefits.
Enrollment instruction packets
Follow the instructions to enroll in insurance programs.
- New hire packet
- IBU new hire packet
Enrolling in your benefits
You will receive a personal enrollment form in the mail.
- New or rehired employees must make their benefits elections in Self-Service. You can use the personal enrollment form as a tool to organize your election choices.
- Employees who are newly insurance eligible due to a change in job status will enroll using the paper personal enrollment form. This will need to be submitted to SEGIP by mail, email, or fax.
If you are a new or rehired employee, have reviewed the benefits information, and are now ready to make your benefit elections, go to the State Employee Self Service site.
- Your agency Human Resource representative will provide you with your 8-digit employee ID #. This is your user id.
- You will also be provided a temporary password by your agency Human Resource representative.
- On the main menu in Self-Service, go to "Benefits" and then to "Benefits Enrollment".
- You should make your benefit elections in Self-Service, you do not need to submit the personal enrollment form to SEGIP.
New employees, rehired employees and newly insurance eligible employees should be aware there is a deadline to enroll. Your personal enrollment form and union contract provide information on your enrollment deadline, or you may contact SEGIP if you need assistance.
Enrollment instruction packets
Follow the instructions to enroll in insurance programs.
- New hire packet
- IBU new hire packet