Managing employee benefits sometimes requires manual intervention, such as generating a potential life event or voiding one, or making the benefit elections for the employee through the professional user interface.
When employees relocate their primary residence to a different state or their duty station changes to a different state, the application triggers an Employee/Family Member Loses Coverage under FEHB or Another Group Plan life event. The employees can then revise their benefit elections using Oracle Self-Service Human Resources (SSHR). If an employee's residence or duty station relocation occurs within the same state, you must manually initiate the life event.
See: Manually Creating a Potential Life Event for a Person
See: Viewing a Person's Life Event Information
For employees participating in premium conversion (pre-tax option), the application automatically triggers the potential life event for Change in Employment Status Affecting Cost of Insurance when an employee changes work schedules. For employees participating in After Tax Deductions, the application automatically triggers the life event Change in Employment Status Affecting Entitlement to Coverage. These life events permit the employees to change their benefit elections.
In practice, work schedule changes in some agencies do not change employee benefits. In these cases, you can void the potential life event.
See: Manually Voiding a Potential Life Event for a Person
See: Purging Person Data for Backed-Out and Voided Life Events
The Continued Coverage life event ensures a smooth transition for employee transfers and rehires. The effective date for FEHB depends on the type of appointment:
If you process a Conversion to Appointment (NOAC 500s's), a Conversion to Appointment or a Reinstatement action (NOACs 140, 141, 143) within 3 days of the Separation action, and the person has no change in duty station or work schedule, the application maintains that person's benefit elections as of the Conversion effective date
If you process a Reinstatement action (NOACs 140, 141, 143) within 30 days of the Separation action, and the person has no change in duty station or work schedule, the employee's FEHB elections take effect the beginning of the pay period following receipt of election
If you process a Reinstatement action (NOACs 140, 141, 143) and the employee is not on the database as an active employee or ex-employee, the employee's FEHB elections take effect the beginning of the pay period following receipt of election
After the application generates the Continued Coverage life event, you can consult with the employee, and then enter the enrollment elections for that person in the Non-Flex Enrollment window.