Understanding ALE Setup

As an HR Administrator, you need to associate an ALE ID to a company as a part of the ALE Company cross reference that identifies the ALE members that are part of an ALE. You use the ALE ID to Company Cross Reference program (P08116) to define the company members that make up an ALE. ALE comprises those companies that have a common owner and should therefore be treated as a single employer. The ALE ID identifies the member of a business entity that employs 50 or more full-time equivalent employees (FTEs). You need the ALE ID to company association to set up employee ACA eligibility information details for employees and for the company members. ACA regulations provide that, for purposes of identifying full-time employees, hours of service must be counted across all applicable large employer members. The system stores the ALE information in the ACA Applicable Large Employer table (F08116).

You can also use the ALE ID program to delete records associating ALE ID to a company. When you delete a record, the system deletes the record from the F08116 table.