Welcome to Your 2025 Benefits Open Enrollment!
You can enroll between November 4 and November 15.
Looking for 2024 benefits? Click here →Check out some benefit highlights using the blocks below!
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and 401(k) Plan Changes for 2025 IMPORTANT!
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Medical HDHP Plan Deductible Changing
Due to IRS regulations, the HDHP deductible is increasing to $3,300 (Individual) / $6,600 (Family).
Dental In-Network Annual Limit & Orthodontia Limit Increases Enhancement!
We are increasing the Annual Limit AND Orthodontia Limit to $2,000 per person on the Cigna PPO plan!
EyeMed Vision Plan Frame Allowance Enhancement!
We are increasing the allowance to $200.
Employee Supplemental Life Enhancement!
The age reduction schedule for this benefit is being removed.
401(k) Plan Changes
Social Security Number (SSN) no longer needed when designating your beneficiaries. However, it still is incredibly important to designate a beneficiary(ies) at www.401k.com
Don't Forget your Furry Friends!
Pet insurance helps cover the costs of veterinary care for your pet, including treatments and emergencies. Metlife offers various plan designs to fit your budget.
Introducing LegalEASE! BRAND NEW BENEFIT!
▶LegalEASE provides easy-to-use legal services for no matter what state in life you are.
What you'll get with a LegalEASE Plan:
• Attorneys with expertise specific to your legal matter
• Access to a national network of attorneys
• In-and-out-of-network coverage
• Concierge help navigating common legal issues
2025 Action Items
▶ • This year enrollment will be “Passive,” which means if no action is taken, all benefits will roll over to 2025
(except FSA and HSA enrollment).
• FSA and HSA enrollment requires an election to participate in pre-tax payroll deductions in 2025.
• HealthComp is becoming Personify Health starting 01/01/2025. Just a name change!
• As life events occur, take this opportunity to verify your beneficiary information.
Surprise Billing Notice → HealthComp Medical Pricing Tool (machine-readable files) →
Healthy Food Wins the Day!
An eating plan that helps manage your weight includes a variety of healthy foods. Add an array of colors to your plate and think of it as eating the rainbow.
Dark, leafy greens, oranges, and tomatoes—even fresh herbs—are loaded with vitamins, fiber, and minerals. Adding frozen peppers, broccoli, or onions to stews and omelets gives them a quick and convenient boost of color and nutrients.
✓ Emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products
✓ Includes a variety of protein foods such as seafood, lean meats and poultry, eggs, legumes (beans and peas), soy products, nuts, and seeds
Welcome New Hires!
Welcome to Ajinomoto Foods!
You must enroll in your benefits
within 30 days of your date of hire.
Your benefit elections will become
effective immediately after
enrollment.
If you enroll in the SIMNSA
HMO, your benefits will become
effective on the 1st of the month
following your date of hire.
Need assistance with your benefits?
Contact the Advocacy Help Line today by calling (855) 557-1467!
Diversity Calendar 2025
The world is rich with diversity, which is
reflected in the observances celebrated by
its various cultures and populations. To
create an inclusive workplace, it is
essential to be aware of all religious
holidays, cultural occasions and national
awareness days, weeks and months, such
as Eid, Yom Kippur, Chinese New Year,
International Women’s Day and Black
History Month (to name a few). But
keeping track of the key dates can
sometimes prove difficult.
So, to get us started, here is a Diversity &
Inclusion Calendar 2025, which can be
used as a guide to support in house
diversity and inclusion strategies and put
them into an actionable plans.
A Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) has been designed to assist you with better understanding the coverage being offered to you, and to allow you to compare coverage options. The SBC is available on www.afnabenefits.com. A paper copy is also available, free of charge, by calling 1-855-557-1467.
Ajinomoto Foods permits insurers to offer employees of Ajinomoto Foods certain voluntary insurance programs. Whether you choose to enroll in any of these programs is completely optional and voluntary. Ajinomoto Foods does not make a contribution towards the cost of these programs and employees pay the full cost of premiums on an after-tax basis. Ajinomoto Foods does not sponsor, maintain, endorse, recommend, or promote these voluntary programs. Ajinomoto Foods' involvement regarding these voluntary insurance programs is strictly limited to allowing the insurer access to employees to publicize these programs and Ajinomoto Foods may perform certain ministerial functions such as payroll deduction and forwarding employee premium payments to the insurer. Ajinomoto Foods does not receive any consideration in the form of cash or otherwise in connection with the program, other than reasonable compensation, excluding any profit, for administrative services actually rendered in connection with payroll deductions. Accordingly, these voluntary insurance programs are not subject to ERISA and related regulations. All questions or claims regarding these programs should be directed to the insurer.
All benefit plans are governed by master policies, contracts, and plan documents. In the event of any inconsistency between the information contained herein and the applicable plan documents, the provisions of the plan documents shall prevail. Ajinomoto Foods reserves the right to amend, suspend or terminate any benefit plan, in whole or in part, at any time. The authority to make such changes rests with the Plan Administrator.
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