Posting Elections to Base Benefit Tables

As elections are prepared for posting to the Base Benefit tables, Benefits Administration determines the proper coverage begin dates and deduction begin dates based on event rules defined by plan type. Future-dated elections are inserted into Base Benefit tables as the participant elections are validated or finalized.

Payroll processes such as the Payroll for North America Pay Calculation process select elections based on effective date, using future-dated elections only when they become effective for the current pay period. If the election for a given plan type is equal to the current election, no entry is posted. If a participant is no longer eligible for a given plan type, that participant's current elections are terminated by the insertion of a row into the Base Benefit table for the plan type.

Inserting termination rows into the Base Benefit tables (rather than making a current row inactive) facilitates rolling back or reprocessing elections that have been posted to the Base Benefit tables. You can reverse Individual elections—or groups of participant elections—out of the Base Benefit tables by identifying those participants for reprocessing.

Note:

If you were to look at the physical record structures underlying the Base Benefits election tables, you might notice that it still contains the fields Coverage End Date and Deduction End Date. This is for historical reasons only, and their use is discontinued, having been replaced by the approach of inserting superseding Termination, Waive, or Election rows. You should not create any processes that update these end date fields or any fields that rely on them.