Use this screen to define personal and work-related life events. You must select the Benefit Qualifying Event checkbox for any life event that qualifies an employee for enrollment in a benefit plan outside of the open enrollment period. For example, marriage or birth of a child could qualify an employee to enroll dependents. A change in employment status, such as moving from part-time to full-time, may also affect enrollment eligibility. You can use this screen to set up codes and related descriptions for each event that affects enrollment.
You should enter all of the life event codes and descriptions you need before setting up a benefit plan that has the Qualifying Life Event checkbox selected in the Benefit Plan Setup screen in Costpoint Benefits. You must also fill out this screen before you can link a qualifying event to a specific employee in the Employee Life Events screen. However, you can add to the Life Events table at any time, and you can establish an unlimited number of codes and descriptions.
After selecting the New Line button on the toolbar, enter up to 12 alphanumeric characters to uniquely identify this life event code. This code is used to define which events qualify an employee to enter a benefit plan outside the normal enrollment period. This is a required field.
Enter up to 30 alphanumeric characters to describe this qualifying event. This field is required.
Specify whether the life event is a personal life event or a work-related life event.
Select the checkbox if the life event qualifies an employee for benefits enrollment.
Specify the number of days that the employee is eligible to select/change benefit elections after the life event date. This is also the number of days that the employee is eligible to make changes and/or selections in benefit and non-Benefit modules in the life event's user flow in ESS. This column will be enabled only if the Benefit Qualifying Event checkbox is selected for the Life Event Code.