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You should designate a beneficiary immediately upon enrolling in Life and/or AD&D insurance. You may name the same or different beneficiary for your UC Retirement Plan and/or Senior Management Life, if any.
You may name more than one beneficiary and specify the percentage that each beneficiary is to receive online or by submitting form UBEN 116 [PDF]. A beneficiary may be a person, trustee, or organization.
You can change your beneficiaries at any time. If no beneficiary is named or if your beneficiary is no longer living, any benefits will be paid to your survivors in the following order:
- surviving legal spouse or surviving domestic partner; or, if none,
- surviving children, on an equal-share basis; or, if none,
- surviving parents on an equal-share basis; or, if none,
- surviving siblings; or, if none,
- the member's estate.
