PeopleSoft Benefits Administration Cumulative Feature Overview

PeopleSoft Benefits Administration Cumulative Feature Overview

PeopleSoft Enterprise HRMS Cumulative Feature Overview

Benefits Administration


•To help organizations that must inform benefit providers and suppliers about employee plan changes, eBenX offers a solution to make this process easy, and it is available to PeopleSoft customers using Base Benefits or Benefits Administration. Integrating with eBenX enables companies to use eBenX’s benefits data management and distribution services to distribute benefit enrollment data to their benefit providers.

•Significant changes to improve overall performance of key transactions. These key transactions now operate in deferred processing mode, enabling you to enter data quickly and efficiently without losing any keystrokes or waiting for processing.

•BAS Election Entry pages have been redesigned to facilitate more rapid keyboard-only entry of employee enrollments by presenting the available plan choices as a continuous long page rather than plan-by-plan. We also enable you to defer the enrollment of dependents and beneficiaries until after the employee’s choices have been entered.

•When employees change their marital status or add a dependent using the Life Events transaction, the system generates a trigger.

•(CAN) Canadian employees can elect to have excess credits rolled over to Canadian FSA plan types 65 and 66. If an employee chooses to have excess credits applied to an FSA plan type, but isn’t enrolled in an FSA plan, the system will create an enrollment for the employee with a contribution amount equal to the excess credits.

•(CAN) Administrators can use the new Excess Credit Table to define which plan types and deduction tax classifications they want the system to use to calculate excess credit amounts.

•(CAN) When Pre-Enter is selected on the Event Class table, the Election Entry page and the eBenefits FSA Enrollment page will display the amount of the excess credit.

•(CAN) When the new Include Canadian Sales Tax on Form check box on the Benefit Program page is selected, the Canadian Sales tax amount displays on the eBenefits Enrollment Summary page.

•Capability to permit an employee to make changes in levels of coverage that are consistent with the gain or loss of coverage eligibility. With this security, companies can control employee access, but still reap the cost savings by offering employee self-service benefits registration and maintenance year round.

•Event Rules table has been enhanced. Using the Electable Options group box, you can now define coverage controls.

•Ability to define how to process FSA pledge changes. Use the Allowable FSA Pledge Changes field on the Event Rules page to indicate whether an increase or decrease to FSA pledges is allowed.

•Added fields to track Medicare entitlements and enrollments and fields added to the eligibility tables.

•Configured to allow overage dependents to remain covered in plans until policy says they are no longer eligible. Provisions for events to maintain dependents and coverage when employees are migrated from one plan to another.