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Walking Works participants must log steps to earn credits

The Penn State Hershey Medical Center Benefits Office is reminding employees participating in the Walking Works program: People participating in Walking Works to earn HRA credits must make sure they are logging their steps under the current campaign (wwsp06). If an employee's steps are not logged under the current campaign, he or she will not receive any HRA credit.

Benefits records indicate more than 500 participating employees did not enter the campaign code required to log steps for HRA credit. The Benefits Office has asked Capital Blue Cross to re-open the registration period so these employees can enter the campaign code and ensure that the steps that they have logged will be tied to the current campaign making them eligible for HRA credit.

To enter the campaign code, an employee must do the following:

-- Log onto the tracking tool where he or she logs his or her steps.

-- On the right side of the screen, look for "My Campaign."

-- Click on "Enter your code now."

-- Type wwsp06 in lower case, then click submit.

The easiest way for an employee to determine if steps are logged under the current campaign is to log onto the tracking tool and then check if each new week begins with a Saturday or a Sunday. If the week begins with a Saturday, the employee is appropriately logging steps in the current campaign and is eligible for HRA credit. If the week begins with a Sunday, the employee is not logging steps under the current campaign and must follow the short steps listed above to correct the problem.

Last Updated March 19, 2009

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