Process Status and Benefit Program Assignment

The system uses event and eligibility rules to assign the participants associated with an open event to a benefit program.

Participant events can be assigned to a single program, multiple programs, or no program at all. The following table details process status designations:

Process Status	Description	Next Processing Steps
AE - Program Eligibility Assigned Error	Participant event is assigned to multiple programs.	The system cannot process the participant event through the next stage (option preparation) until you correct the errors. You'll most likely need to make corrections to participant personal, employment, and job information or to program eligibility information. Each time you run the Benefits Administration process, the system reevaluates AE events.
AN - Program Eligibility Assigned None	Participant event is not assigned to a benefit program.	During the option election phase of the process, the system determines whether the AN participant associated with the event has current elections that require termination due to loss of program eligibility. If not, the event is assigned to FA (Finalized - Assigned None) status and processing ends. If the participant does have elections, the system updates process status to PR (prepared). Before the system can terminate this event, you have to acknowledge it on the data entry pages. The Find Terminations workflow process locates participant events at PR status that require termination.
AS - Program Eligibility Assigned	Participant event is assigned to a benefit program.	The event continues on to a process status of FP (Finalized - Prepared None), PE (Prepare Error), or PR, depending on the associated participant's eligibility for benefit options.

Note:

You should not see the AN process status when the system completes the first run of the Benefits Administration process. The system uses this status value only during the Schedule and Program Assignment stage of the process. In option preparation, the next stage of the first run of Benefits Administration, the system moves events with an AN process status on to subsequent process status values like FA or PR.

In addition, if you see a set of events at the AS process status after Event Maintenance processing, employees are being processed who have more than one event assigned to them. In event maintenance, the system can assign and schedule all unprocessed events to a status of AS. However, because Benefits Administration can process only one event per participant at a time through option preparation and election validation, it must close those events and leave them behind at AS status until the open events are processed.