When you process an Appointment, Conversion to Appointment, or Extension RPA actions, you can enter health benefits, Federal Employee Group Life Insurance (FEGLI), and Thrift Savings Plans (TSP) benefits information.
Note: For Extension actions, you can change health benefit information, but not FEGLI or TSP benefits. (The Office of Personnel Management does not authorize changes to existing FEGLI or TSP benefits for Extension actions.)
To make data entry faster when processing these RPA actions, the application enters default benefit values in the US Federal Benefits RPA extra information.
Upon update to HR, the application creates Assignment elements associated to the benefits using the effective date entered for the RPA as the element's start date. The application:
Creates the Health Benefits Assignment element
If you have implemented advanced benefits and entered Yes for the Pre-Tax Waiver, the application creates a Health Benefit Assignment element; if you entered No, the application creates a Health Benefit Pre-Tax Assignment element.
If you have not implemented advanced benefits, the application creates a Health Benefit Assignment element with the Pre-Tax Waiver information.
Creates the Federal Employee Group Life Insurance Assignment element
Creates the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Assignment elements for employees enrolled in a Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) or Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or equivalent retirement plans
Updates the appropriate fields of the People extra information (US Federal Person Benefit Information and US Federal SCD) with the information not stored in the elements, such as the eligibility and expiration dates
Initiates the appropriate potential life events, such as Initial Opportunity to Enroll if you have implemented Advanced Benefits
The employee can then modify the elections during the life event period using self-service, or you can enter the elections for the employee using the professional user interface. If you have not implemented Advanced Benefits, you must correct and update the element entries manually.
If you need to correct the benefit elections originally entered in the RPA, do not process a Corrections action; update the information in the benefits professional user interface.