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if you're working for an employer and you want to add your spouse or your dependent to your group benefits plan I'm going to show you how to do that in this video disclaimer I'm not a benefits expert son life's definition of a spouse is essentially someone who's a Canadian or u.s. resident and they also have to be one of the following so you need to be married to them you need to be in some type of union by law maybe common-law and there's another example where I think they call it you need to have a conjugal relationship at best the first time I've ever heard that word before but yeah so that constitutes what it is to be a spouse when it comes to a dependent what they describe as a dependent is someone who's under the age of 22 who isn't married and that relies on you it can also be someone who's below the age of 26 years old who's not married that's still in school relying on you for financial support so that's what something like defines as a dependent it really is important to make sure that you be proactive about this and get your benefit set up for your spouse or your children if you can there's so many people that I know who haven't done this yet and they have kids and anything really could happen any moment emergencies happen all the time and you don't want to end up paying for this stuff out of your own pocket when you might be tight on finances you definitely want to take advantage of your benefits rather than use it towards your tax return from my situation I needed to get my benefits from my child done immediately we were concerned that her tongue-tie might have been too restricting and we also found out afterwards when the baby was born she had a neck problem and her neck was defaulted like this because we he ended up going through a vacuum procedure and that's where the doctor takes a suction cup and they put it on the baby's head and they pull the baby out that kind of messed with her neck and caused a lot of sleeping problems so we had to take her to a chiropractic to get that sorted out and that's just one example the first thing you have to do is figure out whether your plan actually allows you to even add a spouse for it dependent not all Sun Life benefit plans are the same so for example I'm able to add my wife and my children but my wife's plan only affects her and you can figure that out by either looking into the booklet that you should be receiving or you can check online or even talk to your your HR department or the admin who's in control of the benefits the next step is basically getting your hands on the form you can probably get a specific version of your form from your employer if not then you can go online and you can search up a general form that you can just submit to them it's called the group benefits enrollment slash change for specifically for sunlight and what you want to do is you want to go through the document and fill out whatever information that you want to update and sign off on it and then you submit it to your HR department or your administration that deals with the the benefits and all those things they'll be able to add it into their database and contact sonlife to activate the account so there actually is a huge difference between adding somebody and activating someone when they get added you'll be able to see their name in the app or the website so you can actually click on it and you can submit a claim but if it's not activated on sunlights and then you will not be reimbursed so you'll see the claims be completed but then if you actually check and look into it you'll see that you claim $0 so this is a huge thing that I ran into that gave me a lot of trouble and it kind of backlogged a lot of my claims it takes about 48 hours for your spouse or your dependent to be activated on the and you need to make sure that when you do your expenses that they're not done before the activation date because then if you try to submit it you're not gonna get any reimbursement back I don't think they mentioned this anywhere so it's just something that you might run into through experience if you're trying to shove everything into a really tight timeframe this is why you don't progress I know there's not a lot of information about this type of stuff online so hopefully it helped if you enjoyed the video please hit that like button and subscribe and I'll see you in the next one [Music]