Life Events That Occur During Open Enrollment Period

You must act on any intervening life events that occur during an open enrollment period. This topic explains what causes intervening life events, provides an example, and lists reports to detect them.

Causes of Intervening Life Events

Any of the following actions can generate intervening life events based on their setup:

• The Evaluate Temporal Event Participation process detects temporal life events for workers, such as grade or age changes.

• The administrator or participant adds a contact, for example, a spouse or child, using the Contacts page.

• The administrator adds a life event manually using the Person Life Events page in the Benefits Service Center page.

Example of Intervening Life Event

Scenario: During the open enrollment period, a participant experiences a gain dependent life event that affects eligibility for electable choices.

The administrator or specialist must:

1. Allow the life event to back out the open event.

2. Take steps to process the intervening life event.

3. Reprocess the open event.

Reports to Detect Intervening Events

Use the sources in the following table to review evaluation processing results and identify intervening life events:

Population Processed	Life Event Report Location
All participants or selected population	Life Event tab on the Summary page of the Evaluation and Reporting work area Search for events in the Detected status with other report parameters. Click Details to view the participant list.
Specific participant	Use the Person Life Events task in the Benefits Service Center page Select the Potential Life Events tab. View any detected or unprocessed life events for that worker.