Multiple Jobs and PeopleSoft Pension Administration
PeopleSoft Pension Administration supports the use of multiple concurrent jobs, instead of relying on Employment Record number 0 for much of the information that is used in the pension benefit calculations.
Multiple Jobs and the Eligibility Process
The eligibility process always produces two primary results:
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Confirmation of whether a worker has ever been eligible for pension benefits.
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Time line showing the periods of eligibility and ineligibility.
For a single-job environment, producing these results is a matter of examining a worker's only job record history. If a worker has multiple, concurrent jobs, the system determines plan eligibility based on all jobs. The system considers the worker to be eligible for a particular period if any of the jobs are eligible.
Multiple Jobs and the Primary Job Record
The system examines all of a worker's records and selects a primary record by choosing the first record that it finds in the following prioritized order of categories:
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Overrides
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Covered Active
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Covered Inactive
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Any Active
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Any Inactive
If it finds more than one of any of these categories, it selects the lowest-numbered record in that category.
You can accept the system-calculated primary record or override it with your own definition of which job record should be the primary record. Do this by configuring your definition of which actions make a job active or inactive or by using the Primary Job Overrides page to designate a record of your own choosing as the primary record.