Add Rules (BN16.2)

Use Add Rules (BN16.2) to define a waiting period for employees who, as a result of a personnel action, become eligible to enroll in a benefit or a flex plan. BN100 (Employee Benefit Update) uses add rules for the calculation of eligibility and, if appropriate, enrollment of employees into benefit plans for which the employee has become eligible. BN100 (Employee Benefit Update) enrolls employees into default benefit plans only.

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Define add rules for personnel actions that cause an employee to become eligible for a benefit plan. An employee becomes eligible for a plan if:

the employee is added to an employee group used to qualify an employee for the plan, or
the employee's benefit postal code changes to match one in the plan's postal code table.

You can define add rules for a flex plan, plan type, or a benefit plan. If all benefit plans under a plan type (such as all dental plans) have the same add rules, define add rules only for the plan type. You do not need to define rules for each plan under the plan type.

If add rules vary for different groups of employees, define add rules by employee group. If you define add rules for one or more employee groups as well as an add rule with no employee group selected, the latter add rules include all employees not in the employee groups associated with an add rule.

Note: If you define different rules for different groups of employees, the employee group selected in BN15.1 (Benefit Plan) should include all the groups used for the rules. For example, if rules vary for UNION and NON-UNION employees, the group in BN15.1 should include the groups UNION and NON-UNION.

If a change makes an employee eligible for benefits for which no add rules have been defined, BN100 lists, but does not enroll, employees who have become eligible to enroll in the benefit.