Overview
Healthy Living is a comprehensive, holistic program including options to support your physical, emotional, and financial well-being. This program is here to help you and your family stay healthy, meet your financial goals, protect your family, and balance the demands of work and personal life.
This website is organized into sections based on our five pillars of Healthy Living. It will help you identify the benefits you and your family need to focus on your well-being and includes:
Eligibility
All full-time corporate and storeline employees and their eligible dependents are eligible to enroll in benefits effective on the first of the month following a full month of employment.
Eligible dependents* include:
- Your spouse or same or opposite-sex domestic partner
- If you’re covering a domestic partner for the first time, you will need to complete an Affidavit of Domestic Partnership and supporting documentation.
- Your dependent children until the end of the month in which they turn age 26, including:
- Legally adopted children from the date on which you assume legal responsibility
- Foster children who live with you and for whom you are the primary source of financial support
- Children for whom you assume legal guardianship and stepchildren
- Your children (or children of your spouse or same or opposite- sex domestic partner)
- Children who are mentally or physically disabled and totally dependent on you for support, past the age of 26 or older. To be eligible for continued coverage past the age of 26, certification of the disability is required within 31 days of attaining age 26.
*Company reserves the right to request documentation to support dependent status. Be prepared to provide documentation if requested.
Enrollment Steps
If you are a new hire or newly eligible for benefits, you may make your benefit elections within 31 days of your hire or eligibility date through the enrollment system. Follow the steps specified for your company below to enroll.
Forever 21 Enrollment Steps:
- Go to SmartBen at Forever21.smartben.net. The username is f21, and your Employee ID Number and Password is your 8-digit date of birth (MMDDYYYY).
- From the SmartBen homepage, select My Resources > Enrollment Guides to review the plans and available options.
- Click “Begin Enrollment” to start making your benefit elections. Note: If you are adding any dependents to your benefits, you will need their Social Security Number during this step.
- Once you make your elections for each benefit option, you will receive a Confirmation Statement in SmartBen. Your confirmation statement will be under “My Benefits” on the SmartBen homepage.
- Please review your confirmation statement for accuracy.
All Other SPARC Brands Enrollment Steps:
- Go to Dayforce at aeropostale.dayforce.com. Log in and click on the Benefits tab. Then, access US Benefit Enrollment.
- Before enrolling in benefits, you must click on Profile Forms to add any dependents you would like to cover as well as beneficiaries for life insurance plans. Note: you will need your dependent’s Social Security Number during this step.
- Navigate to the Elections page and follow the steps to select your benefits. Bi-weekly payroll deductions (Your Amount) and the annual total will show in the shopping cart under “Your Selection.” Note: Even if you don’t elect additional life insurance, you must name a beneficiary.
- After enrolling, review all of your elections and dependent information, then click Submit to complete your enrollment. Note: you must make a selection in each section before you submit, or you will receive an error message where corrections must be made before you can submit.
- Once your enrollment has been submitted, print the confirmation statement and keep it for your records.
You may only make changes to benefits during Annual Enrollment unless you experience a qualified life event (QLE). See the table below for a list of approved QLEs and the actions you may take.
What are Qualified Life Events?
If you experience a qualified life event, you must make your benefit changes on SmartBen (Forever 21 employees) or Dayforce (all other SPARC brands) within 30 days. To learn more about all life events and what actions to take in case you experience any of them, visit Life Events.