ITW offers a variety of benefits to help you live life your way — and tools to help you choose. Here’s everything you need to know about enrollment.
Enrollment Details
When You Can Enroll
When You're Newly Eligible for ITW Benefits | |||
When to Enroll | Within 31 calendar days (including weekends and holidays) of your hire date or the date you become eligible for benefits. | ||
When Your Elections Take Effect | First of the month on or after the date you become eligible for benefits. | ||
Because of a Qualifying Event | |||
When to Enroll | You can only make changes to your benefits outside of Open Enrollment if you have a qualifying life event. You have to make changes within 31 calendar days (including weekends and holidays) of the event or wait until the next Open Enrollment or qualifying life event. The date of the event is considered day one of the 31 days, and the last day to make changes is on day 31. | ||
When Your Elections Take Effect | The date of the event for birth or adoption. For all others, the first of the month on or after the event date. | ||
During Open Enrollment | |||
When to Enroll | During the fall (dates are announced in advance) | ||
When Your Elections Take Effect | January 1 of the following year |
Actions to Take
When you enroll, you can:
- Choose or change your benefits.
- Sign up for a Health Care (FSA) if you enroll in the PPO1 or PPO2 medical plans or waive coverage.
- Contribute to an HSA if you enroll in the HealthSaver medical plan. (You can change your contributions anytime.)
- Sign up for a Dependent Care FSA.
- Add or drop dependents from coverage.
4 Steps to Get Your 2025 Benefits
1. Understand What’s Available
Your 2025 Benefits Lineup
Here are the benefits you may select when you enroll and the ones you automatically receive from ITW at no cost to you:
ITW 401(k) Retirement Plan
There’s another valuable benefit you have as an ITW employee: the 401(k) Retirement Plan. Be sure you’re contributing to the plan. And while you’re at it, take a moment to review your current investments and elect or change your beneficiary.
2. Make Smart Choices with These Tools
ITW offers tools and resources to help you choose the benefits that are best for you and your family.
- Watch this video comparing the plans.
- Review your 2025 benefit options and think about:
- Use the Medical Plan Selection Tool to help choose the medical plan that’s right for you! When it’s time to enroll, log on to ITWemployee.com and click the Health & Life Elections icon under the Benefit Provider Websites drop-down. As you enroll, this tool helps you model different health scenarios and estimate out-of-pocket costs. It considers your health care usage and current needs to help you pick the best coverage.
- Call a Benefits Value Advisor at Blue Cross Blue Shield to understand how your medical plan works, compare costs for medical services, find in-network providers and even have appointments scheduled for you.
- Use the CVS Caremark CoPay Calculator to learn the cost of prescription drugs and find generic alternatives.
- Use the MetLife Insurance Calculator to help determine how much coverage you need to protect your loved ones.
3. Cover the Right People
Here’s who’s eligible for health and well-being benefits. Decide who you want to cover.
You
If you’re a U.S. full-time, non-union ITW employee of a participating business unit regularly scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week
Your Spouse/Domestic Partner
Your legal spouse or domestic partner (same-sex or opposite-sex)
Your Children
Through the end of the month in which they turn 26, regardless of student status (includes your spouse’s or domestic partner’s children)
Note: The value of the coverage provided to your domestic partner (and their children) will be taxable income for you unless your domestic partner (and their children) qualifies as your tax dependent.
4. Know When and How to Enroll
You can access enrollment information online at work or at home. You’ll find all the details you need to make your 2025 benefit elections.
- Log on to ITWemployee.com with your seven-digit Employee ID (found on your paycheck stub) and password. (If this is your first time visiting the website, you’ll need to register. See below for instructions.)
- Click the Health & Life Elections icon under the Benefit Provider Websites drop-down and follow the enrollment process instructions.
You can also call the ITW Benefits Service Center at 1.866.489.2468, option 1. Enroll in your benefits by phone Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central time.
First-Time User?
Follow these steps to register:
1. Go to ITWemployee.com.
2. Select the Register link, and the system will guide you through a short registration process.
You’ll need your Employee ID, the first five digits of your Social Security number, your birth month and day, and your home ZIP code.
What Happens If I Don’t Enroll?
You’ll be automatically enrolled in default coverage, which is the benefits you automatically receive, including Basic Life and AD&D Insurance (and Basic Dependent Life Insurance if you have designated your spouse/domestic partner and/or other dependents). You won’t be enrolled in medical, dental or vision coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts, a Health Savings Account or any Optional Life and AD&D Insurance. You won’t have an opportunity to change your benefits again until Open Enrollment in the fall or if you have a qualifying life event.