HOW TO ENROLL
WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS
If you want to keep your same coverage as last year at 2026 rates, NO ACTION IS NECESSARY. Your current elections will roll over.
If you want to make changes to your elections for medical, dental or vision coverage, you must complete and return the enrollment form on page 14 or find it on the benefits website at www. mwaa. com / online-benefits. Make sure it is received by the Compensation and Benefits Department by Nov. 6, 2025.
You can return the form by:
• U. S. Mail: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Attn: Compensation and Benefits Department 1 Aviation Circle, 6th floor Washington, DC 20001-6000
• Secure fax: 703-417-1333
• Secure email: benefits @ mwaa. com
SPECIAL ENROLLMENT RIGHTS
If you gain a new dependent through marriage, birth, adoption, or placement for adoption, you may add this dependent to your medical, dental and vision coverage provided you enroll your dependent within 31 days of the marriage, birth, adoption, or placement for adoption.
WHEN BENEFITS BECOME EFFECTIVE
If you make a new election or change an election during Open Enrollment, it goes into effect on January 1, 2026.
You are eligible for the medical, dental and vision benefits highlighted in this booklet if you are a Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority retiree or a surviving spouse.
Your dependents are eligible for medical, dental and vision coverage if they are your:
• Legally married spouse;
• Domestic partner
• Children, until the end of the month in which they reach age 26;
• Unmarried children of any age who: – You claim as dependents on your income tax return; and – Have a permanent physical or mental handicap that began before age 19; and – Became handicapped while covered under this
Plan or any other group plan; or
• Children who are otherwise eligible and who are alternate recipients under a Qualified Medical Child Support Order.
Subject to the requirements listed, your children include:
• Your natural children;
• Your stepchildren;
• Legally adopted children( beginning on the date the legal adoption proceedings started) and children placed for adoption; and
• Other children related to you by blood or marriage( such as grandchildren), provided the children live with you and you have been awarded legal guardianship, until the end of the month in which they reach age 18.
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