At the start of 2023, UBC introduced a range of new family-building benefits to help support eligible faculty and staff with the costs incurred when accessing fertility, surrogacy, and adoption services. Already these additional benefits have made it possible for people to access these important health-care services.
In the last 12 months, UBC HR received feedback and worked with the university’s benefits provider – Sun Life – to make changes to streamline processes and ensure services are sustainably delivered.
On April 1, 2024, changes to surrogacy and adoption benefits came into effect.
