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Base Benefits & Benefits Administration
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Agenda
Introduction Setups
• Base Benefits • Benefits Administration
Enrollment Processes• Open Enrollment • Event Maintenance • On Demand Event Maintenance
Vacation Accrual FMLA Administration FSA COBRA Administration
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PeopleSoft Benefits
• Peoplesoft’s provides different ways to organizations to offer complete end-to-end benefit solution for their employees.
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Enrollment Tracking
Provider Lookups, Plan InfoCarrier Reporting
Automated Enrollment
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Integration
Base Benefits
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PAYROLL
BEN
ADMIN
Deduction Codes
Pay Calendar
Retro Benefit Deduction
Eligibility Rules
Event Rules
Employee Elections
Leave AccrualsBenefit Program
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Base Benefits Overview
Base Benefits provides the foundation for managing your employee benefit plans:
Create unlimited plans for every type of benefits (health, life, AD&D, savings, leave, pension, retirement, FSA, Vacation Buy/Sell)
Enter various rate types (flat amounts, age or service-based, etc.)
Track information on benefit providers Enroll employees and dependents in benefit plans Identify and track coverage for dependents and
beneficiaries Track and automatically update leave balances Combine benefit plans into programs for eligibility
purposes Identify highly compensated employees and perform
nondiscrimination testing
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Base Benefits Overview
• Base Benefits consists setup as well as employee data: Setup Data
• Program Details• Plan Details• Premium Costs• Calculation Rules
Employee Data• Benefit Elections• Dependent/ Beneficiaries data
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Process Overview
Set up Benefit Plansand Supporting
Tables
Include Benefit Plansin Benefit Programs
Assign Employees toBenefit Programs
Calculate Rates andBenefit Deductions
Identify benefit plansIdentify plan providers
Define Available CoveragesEstablish Rate Tables
Establish Calculations RulesDefine Payroll Deductions
Include benefit plans in oneor more benefit programs
Enroll employees in benefit plansSpecify employee coverage
electionsDesignate dependents or
beneficiaries
Calculate Deductions usingPeopleSoft Payroll
ORUse a stand-alone deductioncalculation for other payroll
systems
Setup Data
Emp. Data
Payroll
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Setup Data
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Base Benefit Setup
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Basic Setups
Provider/ Vendor
Benefit Plan
Plan Specific Table
Calculation Rules
Rates of the Plan
Deduction Code
Plan Type
Limit Table
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Provider/ Vendor Table
• Provider/ Vendors are set up in the Financial System
• These Vendors are referenced in the Base Benefits module
• The Vendor Table in Finance is kept in sync with the Vendor Table in HRMS system
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Provider/Vendor Table
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Benefit Plan Table
• Benefit Plan Table is used to identify: Plan Type
• Plan type are numeric codes which is used to control processing
Provider• Picks up the Vendor set up in the
System Default Deduction Code
• The deduction code attached in the Benefit Plan Table gets defaulted in the Benefit Program Table
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Benefit Plan Table
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Plan Specific Details
• Health Plans Medical Plan Dental Plan Vision Plan
• Life and AD/D Benefit Plans• Disability Plans• Savings Plans
403 (b) 457
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• Leave Plans Sick Leave Plan Vacation Plan Optional Holiday Plan
• FMLA Plans• FSA Plans
Dependent Care – HUMC Dependent Care – Non HUMC
• Pension Plans Qualified Non-Qualified
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Health Plan Table
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Savings Plan Table
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Rate Table
• Flat Rate Table This table is used to define flat amounts for the Benefit
Plan• Salary Rate Table
The Salary Rate Table defines rates based on a percentage of the employee's salary
• Age Graded Rate Table The Age-Graded Rate Table enables you to define rates
based on the age, sex, and smoker/nonsmoker status of an employee
• Service Rate Table Use the Service Rate Table to define rates based on length
of service • Calculation Rules Table
Calculation Rules allow you to define special rules that the organization wants to establish for certain Benefit Plans
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Benefit Program Table
• Benefit Program Table brings together the following details that relates to the Benefit Plan such as: Deduction Codes Coverage Codes Eligibility Rules Event Rules Rates Calculation rules
• Default Benefit Programs are assigned to the employees on the Benefit Program Participation Page of Job Data
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Benefit Program Table
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Benefit Program Table
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Benefit Program Table
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Employee Data
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Assigning Benefit Program
• Only one benefit program is allowed per employee.
• The benefit program needs to be verified manually as employee will be eligible only for the plans associated with their benefit program.
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Assigning Dependents/Beneficiaries
• Dependents can be of three types Dependents Benefiticiaries Both
• Dependents can be enrolled in all plans• Beneficiaries can not be enrolled in Medical plans• Number of maximum dependents allowed is defined at
Benefit Program level.
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Dependent/Beneficiary
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Assigning benefit plans
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Benefits Administration
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Ben Admin Overview
Benefits Administration allows you to:
• Automate Benefits Administration Business Processes (Event Maintenance, Open Enrollment, FSA Administration)
• Calculate benefit costs and coverage amounts independent of PeopleSoft Enterprise Payroll for North America.
• Establish the foundation for implementing self-service enrollment using PeopleSoft Enterprise eBenefits.
• Define flexible spending account (FSA) information for employees.
• Process healthcare and dependent care FSA claims.• Track and view claim and payment data.
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Ben Admin Overview
• Benefits Administration consists setup as well as Processing of benefits data: Setup Data
• Program Details• Eligibility Rules• Event Rules• OE Setup
Processing of Benefits Data• Event Maintenance• Open Enrollment
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Benefits Administration Setup
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Eligibility Rules
Location Officer Code Pay Group Regular/
Temporary Regulatory Region Salary Grade Service Months Standard Hours State Union Code
Age Benefit Status Eligibility Config Field
1-9 EmplId Override Employee Class Employee Type FLSA Status FTE Full/Part Time Elig fields 1 - 9
•Based on eligibility, benefit program gets assigned during event maintenance and Open Enrollment. •The following criteria are provided by PeopleSoft:
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Eligibility Rules
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Event Classes
• Event classes group the types of events the Benefits Administration system recognizes for event processing
• Event Class Table is used to define the types or classes of events you want the Benefits Administration system to recognize
• PeopleSoft provides a following list of Event Classes: Family Status Change Hire Miscellaneous Open Enrollment Snapshot Termination
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Event Class
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Event Rules
• Event Rules work at the Plan Type level and tell the system The eligible options Employee X can actually
choose, based on the type of event that has occurred
The plan types it affects When new coverage will begin
• Each event rule you define typically includes a different set of processing rules for each defined event class
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Open Enrollment
• Open Enrollment is for Annual and mid-year benefits enrollment.
• During Open Enrollment, employee can choose the benefits based on the eligibility.
• Employee can also continue with the elections he/she has made last year.
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Preparation of Open Enrollment
• Double Check the Base Benefit and Benefit Administration Set Up in order to avoid errors at a later stage
• Set up Pay Calendars • Identify Group Ids • Define Open Enrollment Id• Define Schedules
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Pay Calendars
• Setting up Pay Calendars Pay Calendars is a mandatory set up in North
American Payroll The Pay Calendars are required to be set up
for all the Pay Groups Used to calculate coverage and deduction
begin and end dates for the employees
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• The Group Ids are defined to decentralize the benefits population leading to more control over managing the employees
• The Group Ids are attached to the employees on the Job Data – Benefit Program Participation Page
• Assign the Group Id to the Benefit Administration processing schedule
Benefit Administration Group Id
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Benefit Administration Group Id
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• Open Enrollment Id The Open Enrollment Id is associated with the
Processing Schedule Defines the benefit programs to be processed
and Enrollment Begin Dt and Enrollment End Dt.
Open Enrollment Id
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Open Enrollment Id
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Schedule Table
• Benefit Administration Processes are grouped and identified by the schedules
• At least one schedule for Open Enrollment and one for Event Maintenance has to be defined
• Identify the following on the Schedule Table: Company BAS Group Id
• Associate the Open Enrollment Id with the Schedule
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Schedule Table
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Open Enrollment Process
• The Open Enrollment Process has been divided into different stages
• The complete OE process takes about 8-10 weeks depend on the number of bas group ids and OE ids
• The OE Process keeps track of each participant by tracking the stage and status within each stage
• There are typically four stages: Assigned Prepared Elect Enrolled
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Determine Eligibility and Calculations
Produce Enrollment Forms
to Employees
Enter Elections
Validate ElectionsAnd Load Employee
Benefits
Generate Confirmation Forms
Assign Benefit Programs, Prepare Plan Options, Costs and Credits
Notify Employees
The employee returns the completed enrollment form and their selections are entered into the system
Ben Admin validates the election against appropriate tables and eligibility rules. On validation the elections are loaded in the PeopleSoft Tables
Confirmation Statements are generated for the employees
Open Enrollment
Assigned
Prepared
Elect Enroll
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RUN Control
• The Schedule and Checkpoint Restart page It is used to identify the Open Enrollment, Event Maintenance
for which you're planning to run the Benefits Administration process
• The Participants Lists page It is used if you want to add a specific set of employees to the
schedule you're processing • The OE/Snapshot page
It is used to enter reprocessing information for Open Enrollment or Snapshot schedules
Also this page is used to tell the system to schedule new participants for a specific Open Enrollment, or to finalize and/or apply defaults for participants in the schedule who have been processed with errors
• The Passive Event Processing page It is used to identify the passive events that have occurred
between a defined period of time and create an entry of that event in the BAS_ACTIVITY table
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Schedule Summary
• Schedule Summary After a run of the Benefits Administration
process, the Schedule Summary page is referred to
• Review employee counts for all the available status values
• To get a big picture of where the schedule population is at in processing terms
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Event Summary
• Processing Controls Update Page This page is used to review the status of the
events The events can be searched either on the
Schedule Id or on both Schedule Id and Employee Id
• Event Status Update The Event Status Update page is used to
reprocess individual participant events by updating the event status
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BAS Activity Table
• Used to: Review the unprocessed activities that are
currently triggered for the employees Insert manual events for Event Maintenance
processing Delete unprocessed activities
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Event Maintenance
• Event Maintenance is similar to Open Enrollment Process, the only difference is: Nature of the events
• Job related events • Hire• Promotion
• Non Job related events • Address Change • Marital Status
• Passive events • Age Limit
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Event Maintenance
The way the events are triggered • Through Employee Data Changes • Manually inserting Events into BAS
Activity Table
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On Demand Event Maintenance
• On-Demand Event Maintenance allows any end-user to process an employee individually and produce the appropriate statements immediately
• A single screen is provided to carry out all the tasks for enrollment viz. Prepare Options Generating Enrollment Statement Election Entry Validating and Finalizing Elections Generating Confirmation Statements
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Employee Benefits Summary
• The Employee Benefits Summary can be viewed using the following page: Benefits Summary (Pay Dedns) Page
• It displays deduction information on all benefit plans that an employee is enrolled in.
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Reprocessing
• Reprocessing becomes necessary in situations: Event is processed out of order Errors in the election entry
• The events can be reprocessed to any of the stages of the Benefits Administration cycle preceding the stage that the event is currently in
• The individual events as well as the entire schedule can be reprocessed by updating the event status on the Event Status Update Page or the Run Control Page
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Vacation Accrual
• Leave Accrual Process Purpose of the Leave Accrual Process is to
maintain employee leave balances The number of hours to be accrued is
specified on the Leave Plan Table The process is run a minimum of once per
award frequency defined on the Leave Plan Table
• Leave Balances The Leave Balances can be seen on the Leave
Accrual Balances Page
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FSA
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) are before-tax employee savings plans that can be used for certain approved expenses, such as health care or dependent care.
• The following are pre-defined plans 60 – FSA Health Care for US 61 - FSA Dependent Care for US 65 – FSA Health Care for Canada 66 – FSA Dependent Care for Canada
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FSA
• Employee will specify the annual contribution for each plan during open enrollment.
• Payroll will deduct the amount in each payroll based on annual contribution specified by employee and number of pay cycles
• Employee then submit the bills for health care/dependent care and amount will be reimbursed by issuing separate check.
• At the end of the year, the unclaimed amount will be lost.
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FMLA Administration
• Request Page is used to request for FMLA Leave. It consists of the following information: Begin Date Return Date Leave Reason Leave Type
• A workflow is triggered to notify the Benefits Administrator for every new FMLA Leave request
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FMLA Administration
• The Eligibility Page is used to determine eligibility and entitlement for the Employees It displays the number of hours the employee
is eligible for along with the number of service weeks the employee has worked for
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FMLA Administration
• History page is used to schedule and track FMLA leave for your employees.
• It provides with two scheduling options: If the employee will be taking leave on an
irregular and intermittent basis, you can manually enter the hours of leave they'll be taking for each day and week of their scheduled leave
If, on the other hand, the employee will be taking leave on a regular weekly schedule, you can use the Schedule Leave button to schedule leave on a weekly basis
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FMLA Administration
• Mark Paid Leave Page This page enables you to designate a specific
number of days at the start of the FMLA protected leave period as covered by the employee's own paid leave
This option can be used if the organization's policies require that paid leave be substituted and exhausted before FMLA protected leave begins
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FMLA Administration
• Activity Page assists you in the task of tracking FMLA leave plan activity This page is used to log significant events that
affect the FMLA plan such as• Employee inquiries • Requests for extensions • Sending and receiving of notices and
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COBRA Administration
• For COBRA Administration to be enabled, check the COBRA Administration box on the Installation Table
• Identify the Plan Types that are applicable for COBRA coverage on the Benefit Program Table
• Define COBRA Events • Attach COBRA Action to the Action Reason Codes
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COBRA Event Rules
• On the COBRA Event Rules following things are identified: COBRA Period Begin Date Months of Coverage Additional Coverage in terms of disability Maximum Days to notify of the event COBRA Qualified dependents
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COBRA Administration
• There are two types of COBRA Events Initial Event
• A COBRA event is an initial event if no other active COBRA events occurred previously to the person affected by the event in question
Secondary Event • An event must meet the following requirements for
it to qualify as a secondary COBRA event:• The employee and/or dependent must currently
be enrolled in COBRA coverage as a result of an initial COBRA event
• The initial COBRA event must be one of the COBRA event classifications associated with a change to an employee's job status
• The secondary event must be one of the COBRA event classifications that involves loss of coverage for the employee's dependent
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COBRA Administration
• Each time an event is triggered it gets added to the COBRA Activity Table
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COBRA Administration
• Once the event is triggered COBRA Process is run using the COBRA Process Run Control Page
• Identify COBRA Beneficiaries • Generate notification letters to the Beneficiaries
using the COBRA Initial Qualify Letter Page
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