1. Go to the DMDC milConnect site at https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/milconnect/
2. Click on the Sign In Button
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3. Logon using your CAC or DS Logon password.
4. Click on the Login Button
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5. Select Benefits drop arrow.
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66. Select Life Insurance (SOES – SGLI Online Enrollment System).
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7. Review: The SSN (should be your last 4 digits only), Rank, Grade, and date SGLI Last Certified
Date. **This initially may be wrong. The system didn’t carry over your last update from iPERMS.
System Administrators are working to fix it.
88. Review the Standard Mandatory DoD Notice and Content Statement. Click Continue.
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Spouse Name
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Spouse Information will pull from DEERS. If you recently got married, you need to go to DEERS and enroll your spouse first before doing SOES.
Answer the three questions.
9. Click on Continue.
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10Review your SGLI and FSGLI Coverage and Premium levels. If they are accurate and beneficiaries are correct, the SM can Confirm & Certify.
10. Click on Confirm & Certify.
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11After the Coverage Review, SM should click on the Edit Coverage Tab. This is where they can increase or decrease their coverage amount. If they increase their amount, the medical questionnaire will come up.
11. Click on appropriate coverage level amounts, then Continue.
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After the Edit Coverage Review, SM should select Edit Beneficiaries. The Beneficiaries will not pull in from eMILPO on their first time in SOES. Add Primary and Secondary Beneficiaries as appropriate. A trustee/trust can be add under the relationship as required. Once it is identified, there will be a text box that the SM can add 100 characters of data to it.
12. Click on Continue when all beneficiaries have been updated.
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After the Beneficiaries have been added, this screen will come up. This is where you can delete beneficiaries, edit addresses, and update the share of proceeds to beneficiaries.
13. Click on Return to Your Coverage.
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After the Edit Beneficiaries have been reviewed and updated, the next screen is Print/Save Certificate. Click “OK”.
13. Click on Select a Document dropdown arrow.
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15SM can see a copy of their SGLI Certificate of Coverage in the middle of the screen.
15. The SM can email a copy of the Certificate of Coverage. The email will be encrypted with a password that the SM determines.
To print, the SM hovers over the Certificate and the Adobe PDF icons for Print/Save will come up.
16. Click on Return to Your Coverage.
SM determines email address, password, and email body comments.Subject of the email is: Your SGLI Certificate of Coverage [Warning: Message Encrypted]
17. Click on Continue.
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18SM must read all 6 statements and click on the box to Confirm & Certify.
18. Click on Continue.
19. The SM will have to type their name as it appears. FIRST MIDDLE LAST. Then SM must put their .mil address in the email address block.
Click the box.
20. Then Continue.
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