Unrestricted Processing Rule to Process Enrollments Once a Week

You can use the unrestricted processing rule called Once a Week to process the enrollment only once a week even if the employee visits the enrollment flow and makes changes multiple times during the week.

Typically, participants don't change enrollments on a daily basis. So, evaluating the unrestricted event once a week will allow you to accommodate changes to person eligibility, and so on with less processing.

The effective period for this rule is 7 days counting backward from the effective date. An error message appears if you try to run another life event when this rule is in effect.

The error message appears only in Benefits Service Center, not in self service. They can make elections if the event is in Started state. If the application determines that the unrestricted event need not be processed, though the enrollment choices appear, the evaluation doesn't happen. For batch processing, a warning is written to the log file and the next person record in the batch will be processed.

If you decide to use the Once a Week rule, you need to add an enrollment window of 7 days or more for the unrestricted life event.

For terminations and global transfer, the unrestricted event gets processed regardless of processing rule.

The rule can be evaluated in both Self-Service Benefits and Benefits Service Center that use these processes:

• Evaluate Unrestricted Event Participation process

• Evaluate Scheduled Event Participation process