A How To Article.
How to Contribute Excess Premium to Your GVUL Account
If you read our article on Group Variable Universal Life (GVUL) and are interested in taking advantage of this benefits great “Excess Premium” opportunity – see below for how to enroll in this great program.
The website to transact on is MetLife’s MyBenefits site.
You will be presented with a window that says “Access MyBenefits” and asks you to put in a company name. Please input “News Corp“.
From there assuming you have not been on this site before you would “register”. To do so successfully you will need your employee ID which is available to you on Workday if you do not already know it.
If you have been on this site before you would then just log in with a username and password you previously created.
One in the site – select the GVUL “View Coverage” tile as you see below (left tile).
In the GVUL account select I want to “Manage My Investments”
From the Manage My Investments page select “Monthly Investment Premium”. Once you do that it becomes fairly intuitive to work through the rest of the screens. But you will decide the monthly amount (which will then be divided up over your bi-weekly or weekly paychecks). After you indicate the amount you wish to invest you will select the investments your money will be invested in with each contribution period.
After that you are done. For more information on this great program reach out to MetLife directly at 800-220-1716