Impact on Benefits When You Change a Worker's Hire Date

By default, you can't change the hire date of a person to a date in the future when benefits enrollments exist. You will see a message that prompts you to remove the enrollments and try again.

The DELINK_BEN_DATA_ON_HD_CHG lookup, part of the ORA_BEN_SKIP_VALIDATION lookup type, lets you control what happens to benefits when an administrator changes the worker's hire date. You can configure the lookup using the Manage Common Lookups task in the Setup and Maintenance work area.

Scenario	Here's what happens
You enable the DELINK_BEN_DATA_ON_HD_CHG lookup and change the hire date to a past or future date.	The application deletes any benefit enrollments and unprocessed potential life events. You can, however, change the hire date if there are only unprocessed potential life events and no enrollments.
You don't enable the DELINK_BEN_DATA_ON_HD_CHG lookup, and you try to change the hire date to a future date.	You see a message that prevents you from changing the hire date. However, you can change the hire date to a past date; your existing enrollments will remain intact.