The Research Foundation for SUNY Oracle Advanced Benefits Module Administrator Guide

Benefit Processing Administrator Guide
The Research Foundation for SUNY
Table of Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 4
Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 4
Contacts and Dependents/Beneficiaries ..................................................................................... 4
Life Events ................................................................................................................................... 4
Programs ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Employee Self Service ................................................................................................................. 5
Certifications ............................................................................................................................... 5
Benefits Service Center ................................................................................................................... 5
When Employees use Self Service ...................................................................................................7
For New Hires ............................................................................................................................. 8
For changes ................................................................................................................................. 9
Input Instructions ........................................................................................................................... 9
Health and Welfare Benefits for Regular, Hourly and Graduate Employees ............................. 9
Steps for Common Scenarios Chart......................................................................................... 9
Update Contacts to Add/Change Dependents/Beneficiaries ................................................. 12
Add Life Events.......................................................................................................................14
Process Life Events .................................................................................................................14
Add Benefits ........................................................................................................................... 15
Designate Dependents and Beneficiaries ............................................................................... 16
Process Certifications .............................................................................................................16
Process Deduction Adjustments............................................................................................. 17
Late Enrollment......................................................................................................................18
Terminations ..........................................................................................................................18
Expatriate International Health Enrollment ............................................................................. 19
Fellow Health Insurance ............................................................................................................19
Retirement ................................................................................................................................ 20
Basic Retirement ................................................................................................................... 20
Optional Retirement .............................................................................................................. 20
Deferred Compensation ........................................................................................................ 20
Special Circumstances................................................................................................................21
Graduate Student Summer Extensions .................................................................................. 21
Monitoring/Reports.......................................................................................................................21
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RF Benefit Enrollment Addition’s Report ................................................................................ 22
RF Benefit Enrollment Change Report ..................................................................................... 22
RF Benefit Enrollment Terminations Report ........................................................................... 22
RF Benefit Action Items Report ................................................................................................ 22
RF Benefit Life Event Summary Report ................................................................................... 23
RF Benefit Hourly Benefit Monitoring Report ......................................................................... 23
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Introduction
The RF offers many benefit options to its employees. Information for employees on their benefit
options can be found here at www.rfsuny.org/benefits. To help administrators understand and
manage these programs for the employees at their campus, procedures have been created and
can be found here.
The RF uses Oracle Advanced Benefits Module (OAB) to maintain and process benefit elections
and deductions. What follows in this document are the instructions necessary to complete this
task.
Overview
There are five main concepts to understand under the Benefits administrator role when
managing employee benefits in OAB
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Contacts and dependents/beneficiaries
Life events
Programs
Employee Self Service
Certifications
Contacts and Dependents/Beneficiaries
An important part of managing an employee’s benefits is managing their dependents and
beneficiaries. In OAB the first step to any new or changed enrollment is to be sure the necessary
dependents/beneficiaries are entered in the contacts form for the employee. The information
entered on the contact form helps the system determine for which benefits a person is eligible.
A detailed guide on entering contacts is below.
Life Events
In OAB, eligibility for benefit plans is managed by life events. These events indicate an
employee might be eligible for new benefits or eligible to change their benefits. There will no
longer the ability to just add or delete benefits through elements; a life event must always
process first. These life events are aligned with the IRS requirements for qualifying events for
pre-tax deductions. There are some life events that are automatically detected and assigned to
the employee based on the information entered into the assignment and contacts form, others
will have to be manually entered in order to update benefit selections. Once a life event has
been detected or entered manually, it has to be processed. Life events will process automatically
every night. This schedule should be sufficient for newly eligible employees as most do not have
all the benefit information necessary to complete enrollment at the time of the entry into the
Oracle business system. If at any time, you want to process the life event immediately
instructions to do so appear later in this guide.
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Programs
In OAB individual benefits are grouped by programs. These programs define benefits by
restricted and unrestricted benefits. A restricted benefit is one that can not be updated without
a life event; this includes health, dental, vision, flex spending, voluntary short term disability
and all life insurance benefits. An unrestricted benefit is one that can be update at anytime, i.e.
optional retirement. There are two benefits not managed within these programs or in the
Benefits Service Center they are deferred compensation and fellow health insurance. In
addition, long term care needs to be enrolled at the carrier first and then is processed at Central
Office.
Employee Self Service
The greatest advantage OAB offers is the ability for employees to enter their own benefit
information, including dependents, and manage their selections on-line. At the time of hire an
employee can enter all the information necessary to begin their benefits, the administrator only
needs to enter the appropriate deductions for the 28 day in advance. Throughout the year, the
employee can also enter their dependents and any associated coverage changes subject to your
approval and review of the appropriate documentation.
Certifications
Certifications are the vehicle in which you confirm all the appropriate paperwork documenting a
benefit change is received and complete. Steps to process certifications appear later in this
guide.
Benefits Service Center
An important part of managing employee’s benefits is the Benefits Service Center in the Oracle
Business System. This is where all information about eligibility, the benefits an employee is
enrolled in and the dependents for those plans are stored. It is also where administrators will
input all new enrollments and changes if an employee does not use self service. The benefits
center can be found by navigating to People>Benefits Service Center.
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Desktop Activities is your
access point to all other
actions in the Benefits
Center
To view an employee’s current coverage select “Enrollment Results” from the Desktop Activities
and click on the coverage tab
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1. Pick the program
3. See the coverage
date
2. Select the benefit
When Employees use Self Service
When employees use self service, the steps are greatly minimized for an administrator.
Essentially the employee has done all the data entry for you and all that remains is to ensure all
the documentation has been received and that it is appropriate. The below chart indicates what
employees can and cannot do on-line.
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For New Hires
1. Run the report “RF Benefit Enrollment Addition’s Report” to review new enrollments
that an employee has entered on-line. It is recommended that the report be run prior to
payroll.
2. Review selections and enter the deductions for the 28 day in advance (see Process
Deduction Adjustments).
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For changes
1.
Changes will also be listed on the “RF Benefit Enrollment Change Report” report to
review changes employees have made on-line
2. Review and approve certifications. NOTE: These changes will not take effect until you
clear all certifications (see Process Certifications)
Input Instructions
When an employee uses the enrollment form instead of self service, the following instructions
outline your steps to complement enrollment. The benefit enrollment form documents which
plans the employee has elected, the level of coverage, names of dependents and beneficiaries.
The employee must sign and date the form, and your should review the form to ensure all
required information is provided prior to input into the Oracle Business System. You should
also use the Benefit Effective Date Calculation to ensure employee effective dates are correct.
Health and Welfare Benefits for Regular, Hourly and Graduate Employees
In general, the following steps in the order listed below are necessary to complete a benefit
transaction (details for completing the individual steps are below). The chart below describes
common scenarios, and which of the below steps is necessary to complete the transaction. Note:
Hourly non-student employee eligibility is driven from the assignment form, the Hourly
Benefit Eligible field that is a “Yes/No” option. If “Yes” the following steps apply, if no go
directly to monitoring section.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Update Contacts to add or change Dependents and Beneficiaries
Add Life Event
Process Life Events
Enter the benefit (and amount if applicable)
Add the appropriate contacts as dependents or beneficiaries to the specific benefit
Process certifications
Process deduction adjustments
Steps for Common Scenarios Chart
Step
New
Hire
Qualifying
Event
Late
Enrollment
(Health/Dental/
Vision
1. Update Contacts to
Add/Change
Dependents/Beneficiaries
Y
Y
Y
Late
Enrollment
or Increase
(Voluntary
Benefits)
Special Tips/Instructions
Y -if there
are new
beneficiaries
If the relationship ended
(i.e. death or divorce) enter
the end date of the
relationship in the “To
Date”; the coverage for that
dependent is automatically
end dated. The coverage
N -if all
beneficiaries
are already
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Step
New
Hire
Qualifying
Event
Late
Enrollment
(Health/Dental/
Vision
Late
Enrollment
or Increase
(Voluntary
Benefits)
Special Tips/Instructions
entered
level the employee has
should still be reviewed and
updated accordingly.
If the relationship still
exists, but the dependent is
no longer covered, enter
this in step 5.
2. Add Life Events
N
N – if as a
result of an
assignment
changes
(i.e. FTE is
increased
to above
.5)
Y
Y
When adding a manual
event you must Date Track
to the date the coverage will
be effective.
Use Qualifying event for
late enrollment of
voluntary benefits and all
qualifying changes to
health/dental/vision (i.e.
add/remove dependents,
loss of coverage for non-RF
plans)
Y – if
adding or
removing a
dependent
Use Late Enrollment for
late enrollment of
health/dental and vision
only
a.
Occurred Date is the
date enrollment is
received
b. Status Unprocessed
c. Notified Date is the 1st
of the 5th pay period
(when coverage should
begin)
d. Unprocessed date is the
date enrollment is
received
3. Process Life Events
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Y
Y
Y
Y
There may be some
instances where the life
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Step
New
Hire
Qualifying
Event
Late
Enrollment
(Health/Dental/
Vision
Late
Enrollment
or Increase
(Voluntary
Benefits)
Special Tips/Instructions
event has processed
automatically and there is
no life event to process
manually. However, you
should always check to
ensure all life events are
processed.
When processing a life
event, you may receive a
message that says you have
another life event in
progress and asking if you
want to close it. Click “No”
then click “Commit and
Proceed” to complete
processing of the life event.
4. Add Benefits (and
amount if applicable)
Y
Y
Y
Y
If a new dependent is
added or removed but no
coverage level change is
needed, you still must
select the coverage level.
For example: Coverage is
ending for just 1 child but
other children remain
covered. Select current
election to maintain
coverage on the remaining
children.
If the removal of a
dependent causes the
employee to have to change
coverage level, select the
new coverage level first,
then ensure the dependent
is no longer covered
5. Designate Dependents
and Beneficiaries
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Y
Y
Y
Y
If you are no longer
covering a dependent
simply uncheck the covered
box.
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Step
New
Hire
Qualifying
Event
Late
Enrollment
(Health/Dental/
Vision
Late
Enrollment
or Increase
(Voluntary
Benefits)
Special Tips/Instructions
6. Process Certifications
N
Y
Y – if the late
enrollment is
due to a new
dependent
Y – The
employee
should
obtain this
prior to
processing
in the
system
Certifications must be
entered for all dependents,
even if they were covered
prior to the qualifying
event or late enrollment.
7. Process Deduction
Adjustments
Y
Y
Y
Y
Enter deduction
adjustments as
appropriate, taking into
account the 28 day in
advance and any missed
deductions.
Update Contacts to Add/Change Dependents/Beneficiaries
Enter Dependents and Beneficiaries for RF benefit plans into the contacts form.
1. Find the employee in the Benefits Service Center
2. In the Desktop Activities drop down box select “Combined Person and Assignment Form”
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3. Navigate to Others>Contacts - (or you can navigate here through People >Enter and
Maintain)
4. Enter each dependent/beneficiary as designated on the enrollment form for the employee.
The fields required to ensure that the dependent/beneficiary will be available to add to the
appropriate benefit later on are as follows:
a. Last Name
b. First Name
c. SSN (required unless one has not yet been assigned for a new child or is not
required due to the individuals residency status)
d. Birth date (required – if not entered for child relationships the employee will not
be able to select family or employee and children coverage)
e. Gender
f. Relationship to the Employee: there can be more than one. For example, if the
employee is adding their spouse, there may be two contact relationships: Spouse
and Emergency
g. The start date of the relationship (FROM FIELD): This will be either
• For new hires the employment start date
• Existing employees adding a new dependent -date of qualifying event (the
date of marriage or birth/adoption or loss of coverage)
• Existing employee with late enrollment - date enrollment was received
h. Start Reason: optional for tracking dependent activity after initial hire
5. When saving a contact the system will automatically look for a match to the existing people
in the database. Therefore if the contact you entered already has a relationship with the RF
(either employee or SUNY employee) you will have the opportunity to select that record
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rather than add a new one. This is recommended to ensure there aren’t duplicate records for
the same person.
6. After saving, click in the last name and hit the down arrow to enter additional
dependents/beneficiaries
7. Removing dependents – Note: This should only be done when a dependent no longer has
any relationship with the employee and will be not be a beneficiary, for example if the
dependent dies or there is a divorce. If the dependent is still related to the employee but is
just no longer covered, use life events to manage the change in coverage. Do not end date or
delete the dependent on the contact form. If the dependent no longer has a relationship with
the employee, enter the date of the end of the relationship in the “To” field on the contact
form.
Add Life Events
Life Events are detected when information on the assignment or contact form, however there
are two situations where a life event will need to be added manually. A qualifying event (i.e.
marriage, birth of a child, loss of other coverage) or for late enrollment.
1. Find the employee in the Benefits Service Center date tracked to the date of the event, either
the qualifying date or the date enrollment was received for a late enrollment
2. In the Desktop Activities drop down box select “View Person Life Events”
3. Click on the Potential Life Events Tab
4. Add a new event by clicking in the column “Event”. The table below gives the information
needed for each life event eligible to be added manually
Event
Late Enrollment
Occurred Date
Date enrollment
was received
Status
Unprocessed
Notified
Date
coverage will
be effective
(1st of the 5th
payperiod
following
receipt of the
enrollment)
Unprocessed
Date enrollment
was received
Qualified Event
Date of the
Qualifying event
Unprocessed
Date of the
qualifying
event
Date of the
qualifying event
5. Save and proceed to Processing
Process Life Events
If a life event has been detected or manually entered but is not yet processed on the employees
record, it will automatically process overnight. However, in most cases you will want to process
the life event in order to complete the transaction.
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Determine if the Life Event has processed
1. Find the employee in the Benefits Service Center
2. In the Desktop Activities drop down box select “View Person Life Events”
3. Click on the Potential Life Events Tab
4. If the Life Event you are looking for is listed with a status of “Unprocessed” or “Detected”
you can process the Life Event by following the steps below.
Process the Life Event
1. Find the employee in the Benefits Service Center
2. In the Desktop Activities drop down box select “Process Life Events”
3. The event will appear on the top portion of the form.
a. If multiple events exist they will roll up appropriately so only the primary event is
available, however if you receive a message that says you have another life event in
progress and asking if you want to close it, click “No”.
4. Click the “Commit and Proceed” button at the bottom of the form.
5. Close out of the resulting window
6. Proceed to entering benefits
Add Benefits
Once life events have been processed, you can add benefits. The benefits the person is eligible
for are based on their assignment, FTE, and Benefit Hourly Eligibility field. To add a benefit:
1. Find the employee in the Benefits Service Center, date track date to the date of the life event
(new hire date, qualifying event date, date late enrollment was received)
2. In the Desktop Activities drop down box select “Non Flex Program Enrollment”
3. If the person has a life event in progress the following decision box will appear
4. Select “Current Life Event” to add any of the following benefits
a. Health
b. Dental
c. Vision
d. Optional Life (Employee and Dependent)
e. Voluntary Short Term Disability
f. Flexible Spending –see specific instructions in Step 5
g. Graduate Student Employee Health Plan
h. Waiver of Insurance
5. On the General Tab, in the “Plan and Option” column of the form, select the coverage(s) for
health, dental, vision, and optional life the employee indicated on their form
a. NOTE: Check the “Start” field in the Coverage section of the form to ensure the
correct coverage date appears
b. Flex Spending –
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i. For Health Care Spending, enter the annual amount the employee will
be responsible for as listed on the form. Navigate to the “Benefit” tab and
enter the annual amount in the “Amount” field.
ii. For Dependent Care only, you will need to enter two benefits.
“Dependent Care Spending Account Dollar Amount” this is where the
annual amount minus the subsidy should be entered. Navigate to the
“Benefit” tab and enter the annual amount in the ““Amount” field. The
subsidy should not be included in this amount. Then add the benefit
“Dependent Care Spending Employer Subsidy” to the employees record.
The subsidy amount will automatically calculate.
c. New Hires health, dental and vision coverage will automatically default to waived
when they are first hired. If they submit an enrollment form, you need to update
the waiver coverage to their selection. If the new hire has waived coverage for
health, dental or vision no input is necessary for those benefits. If an existing
employee waives coverage during their employment, input “Waive Health”,
“Waive Dental”, or “Waive Dental”.
d. If this is a late enrollment see the section “Late Enrollment” for instructions on
pre-tax and after-tax selections
6. Save the record. Select “OK” when the system reminds you that you have not yet designated
dependents. Then Select “No” when it asks if you would like to close the enrollment, unless
you have no dependents or beneficiaries to designate. If the employee has indicated
dependents or beneficiaries proceed to the next section.
Designate Dependents and Beneficiaries
1. Click the “Designee” button on the Non-flex Enrollment Form:
a. In the Designate Dependents Tab
i. Select the plan and add the dependent in the “Eligible Dependents”
column and click the check box for “Covered”
ii. Save record – Click “No” when asked if you want to close the enrollment
(unless there are no other benefits that need a designation).
iii. Repeat for each plan that will cover a dependent(s) – when you are done
you should then Click “Yes” to close the enrollment
iv. NOTE: Check the “Start” column to ensure that the correct coverage date
appears.
b. In the Designate Beneficiaries Tab
i. Select the plan (Basic Life or Optional Life) and add the beneficiary as
designated by the employee. If no beneficiary is identified, select the
employee.
ii. Indicate whether the beneficiary is Primary or Contingent. If there are
multiple beneficiaries the % should equal 100% for each level.
iii. Repeat for each plan as necessary
c. If you have skipped the first step of adding all dependents/beneficiaries in the
contact form, you can click “Contacts” on the bottom left and add them now.
2. To double check your input, date track a year ahead and review the record by selecting
“View Enrollment Results” in the desktop activities drop down menu.
Process Certifications
When employees enroll in certain types of coverage outside open enrollment or during their first
60 days of becoming eligible, they often have to furnish proof of the qualifying event. When this
is the case, OAB notes that documentation needs to be received in order for the benefit to take
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effect. There are two types of certifications that need to be entered, one for health, dental and
vision benefits and the other is for optional benefits that require carrier approval such as
optional life insurance and voluntary short term disability. To process the documentation and
clear the certification, the follow these steps:
Health, Dental and Vision Certifications
1. After you have designated dependents, click on the “Certifications” button at the
bottom of the Dependent/Beneficiary page. You may also use the desktop activities
menu to go directly to the Dependent/Beneficiary page. After clicking the
“Certifications” button, the Dependent Certifications window will appear.
2. Enter the certification type and date the certification was received. If there is not a
certification type in the list of values that is applicable for the enrollment change you
are making, please just select one of the available certification types.
3. Save.
4. Repeat these steps for all benefits the dependent is being enrolled in and
all dependents, even if the dependents were already covered under the
plans.
Optional Life Insuranance and Voluntary STD Certifications
1. Find the employee in the Benefits Service Center
2. In the Desktop Activities drop down box select “Person Enrollment Action Items” or
select “Enrollment Results” and click the “Action Items” button
3. Highlight Enrollment Certification Required by clicking on that row, then click on
Certifications
4. This will open the certification box. The certifications box lists a sample of what
could be required (Insurance Carrier Approval, marriage certificate, etc.) but you
should follow the correct procedure to determine that the documentation received
meets the requirements for the change.
5. If approval is received, check the received box.
6. If approval is rejected, check the denied box. A message will be returned that the
suspended coverage will be deleted.
Process Deduction Adjustments
When employees are first hired or when a coverage level change occurs, the RF requires that the
employee pays 28 days in advance in order to provide them this length of coverage at the end of
their employment. Deduction adjustments are not required for carrier changes at the same
coverage level. Below are the steps to calculate and input these deduction adjustment amounts.
1. Calculate the deduction adjustments
a. For new hires, this is simply 2 biweekly deductions for the coverage selected
b. For changes in coverage level:
i. Determine the amount of 2 biweekly deductions at the old coverage level
plus any deductions taken at this rate if this change occurred prior to the
current pay period
ii. Determine the amount of 2 biweekly deductions at the new coverage level
(for open enrollment be sure to use the new year’s rates) plus any
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deductions that should have been taken at this rate if this change occurred
prior to the current pay period
iii. Subtract the amount calculated for the old coverage from the amount
calculated for the new coverage. This can be a positive (additional
amounts to be deducted from the employees pay) or negative number
(credit due to the employee). This is the total adjustment.
2. Take the adjustment amount calculated in a or b above and determine the number of pay
periods over which the adjustment should be taken (this is normally two, but in the case
of large amounts it can be divided over additional pay periods)
3. Input the adjustments
a. Navigate to People>Enter and Maintain>Assignment>Entries. You should be
date tracked to the first day of the pay period the adjustment will be taken
b. Enter the element that is associated with the health insurance carrier chosen by
the employee. Enter the amount to be taken for the pay period in the “Addl
Amount” field of the Entry Value window.
i. If the employee is due a credit, enter the amount as a negative.
ii. If the amount is to be deducted from the employee, enter the amount as a
positive.
c. Repeat this process for each pay period an adjustment needs to be processed.
Late Enrollment
When a late enrollment needs to be processed due to an addition of a dependent after the close
of the 60 day window the following specific information must be entered when following the
steps to change enrollment
1. Find the employee in the Benefits Center
2. Add the dependent as of the date enrollment is received with reason of Late Enrollment
3. Add new life event of “Late Enrollment” (do not update any newly detected life events these
will be superseded by the “Late Enrollment” life event you just added) (see Add Life Events)
a. Occurred Date is the date enrollment is received
b. Status Unprocessed
c. Notified Date is the 1st of the 5th pay period (when coverage should begin)
d. Unprocessed date is the date enrollment is received
4. Process life event
5. Add new benefit plan, the new coverage must have the change as a post tax option (pick the
Provider, EE pre-tax Add Spouse or Children or Family)
6. Continue enrollment as normal.
Terminations
When an employee terminates in the Oracle Business System, their benefits will also terminate
and no action needs to be taken to stop their benefits. You will still need to run the appropriate
reports and produce the legally required notices.
If an employee wants to terminate their benefits, use the instructions above to enter the manual
life event “Qualifying Event”
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1. For health vision and dental this must be done with a valid qualifying event (i.e.
gaining coverage with a spouse) and a coverage type of waiver should be entered.
2. For voluntary benefits, this can be done at any time and the benefit can be
deleted from the employees record with the delete button on the top of the form.
Expatriate International Health Enrollment
Enrollments should be sent to Central Office for input.
Fellow Health Insurance
To enrol a fellow in health insurance you do not use the Benefits Center, rather use element
entries, due to the fact that fellows often have their insurance paid for by the award and element
entries is the effective way to ensure this is done.
The scenarios below provide guidance on determining the appropriate health elements to enter
in the Oracle business application based on the coverage selected and award authorization:
If award is
authorized for...
and fellow selects...
then choose the following health elements in Oracle:
Individual only
Individual coverage
Earnings Element = Fellow Health Ins
Amount = Cost of Individual Coverage
Deduction Element = H Fellow Health
Employee contribution amount = $0.00
Individual only
Individual and
Dependent coverage
Earnings Element = Fellow Health Ins with the amount of
individual coverage
Amount = Cost of individual coverage
Deduction Element = H Fellow Health
Employee contribution amount = Difference between
dependent coverage and individual coverage
Individual and
Dependent
Individual and
Dependent coverage
Earnings Element = Fellow Health Ins
Amount = Cost of Family Coverage
Deduction Element = H Fellow Health
Employee contribution amount = $0.00
The total amount of all fellow health elements should equal the total value of the premium for
the coverage selected.
1. Add the earnings element Fellow Health Ins to process the amount of the fellows’ health
insurance that the award will be funding. Enter the value in the “Amount” field.
2. Add the H Fellow Health element with the correct fellow contribution. Enter the value in the
“Employee Contribution Amount” field.
3. You or the staff at your campus responsible for Labor Distribution will need to enter an
element level labor schedule for the Fellow Health Ins element using the expenditure type
“FPS Fellow Insurance” to ensure the award is properly charged for the expense.
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Retirement
Basic Retirement
Basic retirement is processed automatically through Oracle or at Central Office. There are no
campus steps necessary to enable an employee to receive these benefits other than to ensure the
employees assignment information is input correctly.
Optional Retirement
Optional retirement is the one benefit that is not tied to life events. At any time, employees can
enroll in or update this benefit.
1. Find the employee in the Benefits Service Center, date track date to the date the optional
retirement agreement was signed
2. In the Desktop Activities drop down box select “Non Flex Program Enrollment”
a. If there is no current life event for the person, a message will appear to notify
you, Click “Continue”.
b. If the person has an existing life event open the message will ask if you want to
proceed with the current life event or “Unrestricted Enrollment”, select
“Unrestricted Enrollment”
3. The enrollment form will appear with Optional Retirement defaulted in as the program
4. For changes to an existing election proceed to step 4. If this is a new enrollee
a. On the General Tab, in the Plan and Option section of the form, click in the “Plan
and Option”, and ensure “Group Supplemental Retirement Annuity (GSRA) is
selected.
5. Click the “Amount Tab”, and input the percentage selected in the “Amount” field of the
“Defined” section. If the employee is stopping their deduction, enter “0” in the amount
field.
NOTE: The only option open to new employees or those that were terminated and
returned is the GSRA. If a person is active and has been grandfathered in the TDA plan,
you can update the amount only.
Deferred Compensation
For this plan, the RF does not use Oracle Advanced Benefits, rather this is entered in the
element entries for the person. Once entered, these elements will continue to take deductions
every pay period unless action is taken to end date them or until the annual limits are reached
for the calendar year. The deductions will resume at the beginning of the next calendar year.
1. Navigate to People>Enter and Maintain>Assignment>Entries. You should be date
tracked to the first day of the pay period the deferred compensation election will be
effective. This is the first day of the month following the receipt of the deferral
agreement in the HR office.
2. Enter the Retr Def Comp TIAA
a. Enter the contribution percentage in the “Amount” field
b. If the employee is eligible and wants to take advantage of the catch up rules, enter
the total deferral, including the catch-up amount, as an override limit.
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Special Circumstances
Graduate Student Summer Extensions
When graduate student employees are eligible to continue their coverage over the summer
period, the RF requires that the employee pay advance deductions to cover the summer health
period through the last payroll in August. Below are the steps to calculate and input these
deduction adjustment amounts and enter the required benefit override to maintain the graduate
students’ eligibility during the summer period.**
1. Calculate the deduction adjustment
a. What is the total summer premium amount the employee would pay if he or she
stays on the payroll? (i.e., the number of pay periods from the first payroll after
termination through the last payroll in August multiplied by the premium rate)
b. What additional premium amount should be deducted from each of the
employee's remaining paychecks? [i.e., the total summer premium amount
determined in (a) above divided by the number of remaining pay periods until
the employee is removed from payroll]
2. Input the adjustments
a. Navigate to People>Enter and Maintain>Assignment>Entries. You should be
date tracked to the first day of the pay period the adjustment will be taken
b. Enter the “Grad Health PT Special Inputs” element
c. Enter the extra amount to be taken for the pay period in the “Additional Amount”
field of the Entry Value window.
d. Save.
e. Repeat this process for each pay period an adjustment needs to be processed.
3. Enter the Benefit Override
a. Navigate to People>Enter and Maintain.
b. Date track to the first day of the employees summer period.
c. Click on the Benefits Tab.
d. In the Benefit Group, select Graduate Health Summer Override.
e. Save
4. Remove the Benefit Override at the end of the summer period
a. Navigate to People>Enter and Maintain.
b. Date track to the end of the summer period (8/14) if the graduate student is not
returning or the date the graduate student returns to payroll if the graduate
student is returning to payroll.
c. Click on the Benefits Tab.
d. In the Benefit Group, delete the Graduate Health Summer Override.
e. Save.
**For additional information on the graduate student summer benefit continuation process,
please refer to the Graduate Student Employee Health Plan (GSEHP): Summer Period
Continuation of Benefits Coverage procedure.
Monitoring/Reports
The following section describes the reports available to monitor benefit activity at your campus.
You can run the reports at any time; the parameters of each report allow you to select the date
and or specific benefit plan/life event you wish to review. Reports can be run using the
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XXXBenefits Administrator Responsibility or XXXHRMS Administrator and are accessible from the Oracle
Navigator following these steps:
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Expand Processes and Reports menu item in the navigator
Select “Submit Requests”
Select “Single Request” and click “OK”
In the name field, enter RF Benefit% and hit enter. This will bring you the list of available benefit
reports that can be selected (see benefit report names below)
Select the name of the applicable report you would like to run
You will then be prompted to enter date parameters (if applicable)
Once you have selected the report name and applicable date parameters, click “Submit”
Once submitted, you will then be able to view the status of your requested report. Click the
“Refresh” button at the top to see the most current status of your request
Once the report is complete, click the “View Output” button and your report will open in Excel
format where you can sort and filter the results
RF Benefit Enrollment Addition’s Report
This report will provide a list of employees who have enrolled in benefits through self-service or
through a paper enrollment processed via the Benefits Administrator in the Benefits Service
Center. Use the report to determine the employees who need to have deduction adjustments
entered for the 28 day run off or retroactive deductions. Campus locations should run this
report at least bi-weekly, prior to the preliminary payroll run, to enter deduction adjustments
timely.
RF Benefit Enrollment Change Report
This report will provide a list of employees who have had a change in benefits through self service or through a paper enrollment processed via the Benefits Administrator in the Benefits
Service Center. Use the report to determine the employees who need to have deduction
adjustments entered for the 28 day run off or retroactive deductions. Additionally, use this
report to manage employees who have a certification pending due to the mid-year plan change.
Campus locations should run this report at least bi-weekly, prior to the preliminary payroll run,
to enter deduction adjustments timely.
RF Benefit Enrollment Terminations Report
This report will provide a list of employees whose benefits have terminated. Use this report to
assist with the mailing of COBRA materials.
RF Benefit Action Items Report
This report will provide a list of employees who have a pending action item, i.e. pending
certification for a mid-year plan change such as a marriage or birth. Us the report to assist you
in following up with the employee to ensure you receive the certification.
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RF Benefit Life Event Summary Report
This report will provide a list of all life events, both system generated and manually entered
events, and the status of the Life Event. Campus locations can use this report to determine the
status of your employees enrollment (i.e. who has enrolled in benefits, who is still in their 60 day
enrollment window and has not enrolled).
RF Benefit Hourly Benefit Monitoring Report
This report will provide the average hours worked by an hourly employee to assist you in
determining if hourly employees continue to be correctly categorized as benefits eligible (50%)
or not (as entered in the Hourly Benefits Eligible field on the assignment). Campus locations
should run this report bi-weekly and review the previous four payroll periods to determine the
average number of hours worked. For a new hourly employee, you should wait until four pay
periods have run to make any changes to their initial determination of eligibility.
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If an hourly employee, coded as benefit eligible, is not working enough hours to
equal 50% of a full time schedule or greater, the Hourly Benefits Eligible Field
must be changed to “No” and their benefits will be terminated 28 days from the
last day the Hourly Benefits Eligible field is set to “Yes”.
If an hourly employee, coded as not eligible for benefits, is working enough
hours to equal 50% of a full time schedule or greater, the Hourly Benefits Eligible
field will need to be changed to “Yes” and the hourly employee should be offered
benefits. The waiting periods for benefits will start from the date the hourly
eligibility field is set to “Yes”.
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