How the ACA Eligibility Process Updates Assignment Data

The ACA Eligibility Process evaluates each employee to determine their eligibility and then updates their Affordable Care Act (ACA) assignment fields appropriately.

For further info, see ACA Eligibility Process.

It uses these criteria to determine these changes.

• Legal employer ACA settings

• Employee primary assignment ACA field values

• Work hours for employees with a Yes or No eligibility

  For employees whose hours fluctuate during a given measurement period, the process can consider them full time in some periods and not in others.

• Any changes you made since the last time you ran the process

You can summarize this process's actions into these scenarios.

• Determining eligibility for new employees

  For further info, see How the ACA Eligibility Process Handles New Employees.

• Processing employee new hires and rehires

  For further info, see How the ACA Eligibility Process Handles Crossing the Initial Stability Start Date.

• Transitioning employees from initial to ongoing periods

  For further info, see How the ACA Eligibility Process Migrates Employees from Initial to Ongoing Periods.

• Evaluating employee eligibility on an ongoing basis

  For further info, see How the ACA Eligibility Process Handles Ongoing Employees.

• Processing employees with multiple assignments

  For further info, see How the ACA Eligibility Process Handles Multiple Assignments.