Wednesday, October 28, 2015

PeopleSoft Base Benefit vs Benefit Administration

Base Benefit
·         Base Benefits is where you store the Core Tables and Employee Benefit 
Records

·         Base Benefits will allow you to store benefit plans, create benefit programs to group the plans and the employee elections by plan. You can set up the plan rates here as well as coverage codes. Base Benefits works well if you are handling benefit enrollments manually or if you use an outside TPA for your enrollment and just want to store the employee elections in the system. If you set up the rates with the plans it does work with PeopleSoft Payroll in calculating the deduction amounts per pay. 
·         Base Benefits automatically passes deduction information to PS Payroll and 
the maintenance of employee enrollments is manual while BenAdmin determines 
Benefit Program and Benefit Plan eligibility based on the rules that are 
setup and it ensures data integrity. Employee Self-Service Enrollment is 
also available when using BenAdmin. It is integrated with COBRA processing 
as well as Benefits Billing. 

Benefit Administration
·         Benefits Administration uses what you set up in base benefits, but also creates events which can be triggered to allow employees to enroll or change their elections (think new hire, annual enrollment, family status events, etc.). It also allows you to create eligibility rules to determine what plans employees are eligible to enroll in. You cannot use Ben Admin if you do not have base benefits set up or it won't have any plans and programs to tie to events. When events are finalized in Ben Admin, it will load the benefit elections into the base benefits table. See how it all relates? If you handle benefits enrollments in house, Ben Admin might be the way to go for you as it will also allow you to use self-service for the employees to make their elections. 
·         BenAdmin automates the administration of Benefits using 
Eligibility Rules and Event Rules.


·         Once BenAdmin events are finalized, it writes the employee elections to 
Base Benefits.

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