Payment Options

All graduate students receiving monthly stipend checks are eligible to pay for health insurance and/or graduate housing on a monthly basis for up to 12 months depending on the term of their appointments. Please note that the health insurance deduction will appear as a 'tuition' deduction on the paychecks of students.

To initiate this service the student must complete the standard 2008/2009 Payroll Deduction Authorization Form and return it to the appropriate office listed below between July 1, 2008 and September 8, 2008. Further information and templates for various payroll deduction plans are available at http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/studentlife/health/insuranceinfo. A completed form must be submitted to the appropriate office no later than September 8, 2008, in order for processing for the September payroll. Once the Payroll Deduction Authorization form has been submitted and processed, a fraction of the total amount will be automatically deducted from your stipend check for either 9 months or 12 months.  A Payroll Deduction Authorization form must be completed and submitted annually.

Evanston Campus students must submit the completed form to the Office of Student Accounts, 555 Clark Street, Evanston, Illinois 60208-1221. For questions about payment, call Laura Miller at 847/491-5224.

Chicago Campus students must submit the completed form to the Office of Student Accounts, 710 N Lake Shore Drive, #120, Chicago, Illinois 60611. For questions about payment, call Christine Szczepanowski at 312/503-8503.

Students not receiving monthly stipend checks and whose departments are not paying the difference of the insurance subsidy must pay in full at time of billing.  If a student is unable to make full payment, contact the Office of Student Accounts at the above addresses or phone numbers.

Deadlines:

July 1, 2008 to October 1, 2008: Fall open enrollment - new students and part-time students may enroll in the university’s health insurance plan. (Information packets mailed to new full-time students in mid July.)  Enrollment may be completed online via CAESAR.

September 8, 2008: Completed Payroll Deduction Authorization form due to Evanston or Chicago branch of Office of Student Accounts.

October 1, 2008: Return completed Coverage Selection Form (CSF) to the Insurance Division to receive Aetna ID cards before Fall 2008 classes.

October 1, 2008: Final fall response deadline. All full-time students who have not either (1) enrolled in the Aetna Student Health Plan, or (2) submitted a Coverage Selection Form waiving the NU plan with proof of coverage meeting the university standards will be enrolled in and billed for the university’s student health plan.