Additional Benefits
Cigna Medical Benefits Abroad
If you travel internationally for business, Cigna’s Medical Benefits Abroad program ensures you have access to quality care no matter where you go. This plan provides coverage for unexpected illness, injury, urgent care, and emergency medical needs while outside your home country. Benefits include coverage for hospitalization, prescriptions, and emergency dental care, plus medical evacuation and repatriation up to $100,000 per year. Pre-existing conditions are also covered, subject to plan limits. You’ll have access to 24/7 support through Cigna Envoy, where you can find doctors abroad, submit claims, and use telehealth services.
POLITICO Phone Subsidy
Employees have 90 days to submit their monthly phone bill through Navan.
ALEX Benefits Counselor
Need help choosing a medical plan?
ALEX explains your benefits options and helps you choose what’s best for you. ALEX is an interactive, online tool that works on any computer, tablet, or smartphone. ALEX is an expert on POLITICO benefits. Using it can help you pick benefits that provide the right level of coverage for your needs without taking too much money out of your paycheck.
ALEX works like this:
- First, ALEX will ask some questions about your personal situation so it can better understand your needs. (Don’t worry—everything you share with ALEX is completely anonymous and confidential.)
- Then you’ll be matched with the plan options that fit you best. You can also see why ALEX thinks the recommended plan is better for you than your other options.

