Options for Using Age to Determine Eligibility

The Age to Use value that you select for an age derived factor determines whose birth date is used to calculate the derived age. The most common value is Person's.

Use the Manage Derived Factors task to configure age derived factors.

Person's Age

You usually use Person's as the Age to Use setting. With this setting, each person's own birth date is used to calculate age for eligibility evaluation, as shown in the following table.

Scenario	Result
You select Person's as the Age to Use value, and associate the age derived factor with a dependent eligibility profile.	Each dependent's eligibility is evaluated based on the age calculated from his or her own birth date.

Other Age to Use

To evaluate participant or dependent eligibility or rates based on another person's age, such as a spouse or child, select a value other than Person's.

The following table provides examples.

Scenario	Result
You select Person's oldest child as the Age to Use value, and associate this derived factor with a dependent eligibility profile.	Eligibility for all dependents is based on the age of the participant's oldest child. For example, all dependents become ineligible when the oldest child reaches the maximum age of eligibility.
You select Inherited Age as the Age to Use value, and associate this derived factor with a dependent eligibility profile.	Eligibility for all dependents is based on the date of birth as defined in the person extra information flexfield.