PeopleSoft Benefits Administration 9.1 PeopleBook

Getting Started with PeopleSoft Benefits Administration

This chapter provides an overview of PeopleSoft Benefits Administration and discusses:

PeopleSoft Benefits Administration integrations.
PeopleSoft Benefits Administration implementation.

PeopleSoft Benefits Administration Overview

When you build on the Manage Base Benefits business process in PeopleSoft HR by adding PeopleSoft Benefits Administration, you can:

Automate eligibility checking and respond to Human Resource events that might affect benefits enrollment, based on your eligibility and event rules.
Administer multiple, simultaneous plan years, according to enrollment rules that you define.
Calculate benefit costs and coverage amounts independent of PeopleSoft Payroll for North America.
Define and process a variety of flexible credits, both general and plan-based.
For federal users, administer multiple, simultaneous open seasons for different benefit plan types.
Establish the foundation for implementing self-service enrollment using PeopleSoft eBenefits.
Define flexible spending account (FSA) information for employees.
Process health-care and dependent-care FSA claims.
Track and view claim and payment data.
Disburse monies.

Note. PeopleSoft Benefits Administration is designed to be a supplement to the Manage Base Benefits business process. You cannot run the processes and procedures detailed in this book until you set up the Manage Base Benefits business process.

See PeopleSoft Manage Base Benefits Overview.

PeopleSoft Benefits Administration Integrations

PeopleSoft Benefits Administration integrates with the following PeopleSoft applications:

PeopleSoft Benefits Administration integration points

We discuss integration considerations in the implementation chapters in this PeopleBook.

PeopleSoft Benefits Administration Implementation

PeopleSoft Setup Manager enables you to generate a list of setup tasks for your organization based on the features that you are implementing. The setup tasks include the components that you must set up, listed in the order in which you must enter data into the component tables, and links to the corresponding PeopleBook documentation.