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This process determines an employee's Affordable Care Act (ACA) eligibility status. You can determine an employee's ACA eligibility status according to the following two methods:
Look-back Measurement period
Monthly Measurement period
These methods are used to calculate the weekly or monthly hours of service to determine full-time employees for ACA purposes. The ACA Eligibility Status record indicates an employee's potential eligibility to offer for health coverage, based on the timecard history for the measurement period and whether the employee meets the hours of service thresholds as defined by ACA provisions.
When the Hours of Service process is run in Final mode, records are added to the Employee ACA Eligibility file (F081161), and to the ACA Home Company Summary file (F081163). The employee ACA eligibility status is updated and an hours of service report is created. The Hours of Service report includes information such as, the employee's total and average hours for the measurement period and other relevant information about the employee.
In the Proof mode, the system creates only the report.
From Human Resources (G08), choose Affordable Care Act
From Affordable Care Act (G08ACA), choose Hours of Service
Under ACA provisions, a full-time employee is an employee who is employed for an average of at least 30 hours of service per week, or for an average of at least 130 hours of service per month. The final regulations provide two methods for determining full-time employee status: the Monthly Measurement method, and the Look-Back Measurement method.
See Section 72.2, "ACA Hours of Service (Proof or Final Mode) (P08416) (Release A9.3 Update)."