For an overview, see: Employer Shared Responsibility Reporting Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Administration

Run the Benefits ACA Purge Process to purge the archive data generated by running the Benefits ACA Archive Process. See: Running the Benefits ACA Archive Process. Run this Benefits ACA Purge Process if any data discrepancies are found and corrections are required before printing the Employee 1095-C forms. After purging, make the necessary changes and rerun the Benefits ACA Archive Process.

Run the Benefits ACA Purge Process from the Submit Request window.

   To run the Benefits ACA Purge Process:

1. Select Benefits ACA Purge Process in the Name field.

2. Select the following parameters:

   • Year: Select the year for which the purge process must be run. The list of values displays only those years for which the archive process was completed.

   • Purge Mode: Only Archive can be selected currently. This option will purge the data archived by running the Benefits ACA Archive Process.

   • GRE: Select the GRE for which the purge process must be generated. The list of values displays only those GREs for which the Benefits ACA Archive Process was successfully completed. Note that this parameter will be enabled only when Purge Mode is set to Archive.

   • Authoritative GRE: Currently, this parameter is not available for selection.

   • Validate: Select Rollback or Commit. Like other processes in the Benefits application, this process can be run in rollback mode (data is not saved) or commit mode (data is committed in the database).

3. Click OK and then Submit.