Enrolling in new benefit plan due to marriage

[Guest wallacea]

An employee waived enrollment in the vision care plan during open enrollment. He has now gotten married. Is he entitle to enroll himself and new spouse in the vision plan, or can he only add his new spouse to plans that he (the employee) is already enrolled in?

[SLuskin]

Assuming that the vision plan is part of a Section 125 Plan, and if the employer has amended and restated the plan document to add the new final and proposed regs, then yes, you can enroll in the vision plan while you enroll your wife.