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Student Debt: Direct℠ employee engagement toolkit

We've put together a suite of materials to help you launch, promote, and leverage your new benefit.

Today, you are among a small percentage of companies that offer this sought-after benefit.

We’ve put together a suite of materials to help you launch, promote and leverage your new benefit with both current and prospective employees.

Student Debt Direct Participant Playbook

The purpose of this document is to provide you with information based on our experience working with other clients to get your employees engaged and using the Student Debt Benefit.

Content Creation

Below are recommended key messages and vehicles for each phase. Fidelity has, in some cases, provided links to templated communications that you can use to communicate the program to your employees. For other communications, you can use language from those templates to create your own.

Simply download each piece you’d like to use, edit with you program specifics (if needed), and start sharing the news about this amazing benefit.

ANNOUNCE
Key Points Vehicles
  • General statement about your commitment to helping your employees  
  • Program overview along with dollar amount being paid on the employees behalf 
  • General timeline regarding enrollment period
EDUCATE
Key Points Vehicles
  • Enrollment is coming soon 
  • Use Fidelity’s Student Debt tool to enter loan details, possible savings and refinancing options 
  • Link to getting started guide 
  • Reminder that employees will need statements to enroll 
  • Date employees can expect to receive an enrollment message from Fidelity 
  • Fidelity also has resources to help you save, select, and pay for college (post deployment)
ENROLL Vehicles
Key Points
  • Millions of Americans are negatively impacted by student debt 
  • Reinforce benefit details 
  • Reminder that student loan borrowers will need statements to enroll 
  • “Click to enroll”
CELEBRATE
Key Points Vehicles
  • Reinforce that you are a leader in your space 
  • You are committed to helping your employees 
  • Why you made the commitment 
  • Recognize the success of your Student Debt program since deployment3
    • Number of participants 
    • Amount of principal paid 
    • Amount save through reduction of principal and interest

1Plan sponsors should use the denomination that best aligns with their Student Debt program

By using these communications, you represent that you are an authorized representative of the organization for which you are copying, distributing, 1Plan sponsors should use the denomination that best aligns with their Student Debt program

2in addition to deployment, an enrollment message is sent when a new eligible employee joins the company. In the event no action is taken, a reminder message is sent 2-4 weeks after the enrollment message and on an annual basis.

3Information is available in the Student Debt section of PSW

By using these communications, you represent that you are an authorized representative of the organization for which you are copying, distributing, posting, or otherwise using the Fidelity-prepared communications attached here, and you accept these terms and conditions on behalf of the organization.

FOR PLAN SPONSOR AND INVESTMENT PROFESSIONAL USE ONLY.

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