2026 Benefits Open Enrollment

Maintaining your health and well-being is vital; now more than ever.  SHA offers employees wide-ranging benefit choices that support your and your family's health and financial security.  Open enrollment is a time to assess your needs for 2026 and make modifications to your benefit selections.  Open Enrollment begins Monday, October 13 and ends on Friday, October 31, 2025, at 4:00 p.m.  Information for Seattle Housing Authority employees and their dependents can be found on this page.

If you have questions that can't be answered on this page, contact the SHA Benefits Team at: HR-Benefits@seattlehousing.org. 

If you make changes during open enrollment, your new coverage is effective on January 1 of the new plan year. 

This page will be updated as more information is available.

**New this year is an in-person benefits fair.  Visit this page for more information: Benefits Fair.**

Adding your spouse or domestic partner to your coverage requires an Affidavit of Marriage/Domestic Partnership form.  This form only applies if you have not previously enrolled your spouse or domestic partner to your benefits. 

To ensure that the City is treating all employees fairly; operating our plans consistently and in accordance with our plan documents; and appropriately allocating funds, the City verifies the eligibility of all new dependents added to health care plans.  All SHA employees with City health care coverage are required to provide documentation for their covered dependents with the City’s business partner, Alight Solutions.  Employees covering dependents are asked to provide documentation of the nature of the relationship (such as marriage license, birth certificate, affidavit of domestic partnership, court documents, etc.) as well as the status of the relationship (such as a federal tax return, proof of joint ownership, etc.).  Alight Solutions will initiate the process in 2-4 weeks, communications will be mailed to you.  Please submit your documentation to Alight Solutions on time.  Failure to do so may result in losing your dependents coverage.

Open Enrollment is the time to enroll in the 2026 Flexible Spending Account program (Health Care and Day Care). You must re-enroll every year, even if you had an account the previous year.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:  If you are making any changes to your 2026 benefits or enrolling in a 2026 FSA, you must return the Benefits Enrollment Form and/or FSA Enrollment Form to Human Resources by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 31, 2025.

No action or form is required if you do not want to make any changes to your 2026 benefits, except to enroll or re-enroll in a Flexible Savings Account.