BN149 Processing Questions

manisht

We have a 12 month measurement period, 1 month admin, and 12 month standard period setup in the BN149. All of my reports are processing and show the expected results of Eligible, Not Eligible, Termed, etc... but I have a questions about the overall implementation use of these reports that I am not gathering from the KB.

Initial Tab: We can process new hires and rehires with this tab setup. For the initial implementation does this mean that I need to process all new hires back to 2015/2014 in order to include them in this years reporting or only start to process new hires measurements starting in 2016. What cadence are others using to run this particular part....each PP, each month, only at the end of the year?

Standard Tab: We can process all existing employees. Is this all we have to run this year in order to populate our BN49 records for all employees or need a a mixture of initial tab too? What cadence are others using to run this particular part....each PP, each month, only at the end of the year?

unknown

We are also planning on a 12 month look back. We are planning on running the initial measurement monthly to identify anybody that has completed their first year of service and is eligible based on hours. The standard measurement period we will only assess once a year. I think you do need to look back to 2014 to tell who you should have been offering insurance to in 2015 (good thing there is no penalty if you offered it to 75% of the people you were supposed to). You will need to start with 1/1/2015 new hires for 2016 eligibility. In 2016 you will need to offer it to 95% of people averaging over 30 hours per week to avoid penalty so you will need to be pretty accurate.

BN149 seems to be doing a good job of identifying who is Eligible.

My question is what do I do with this information. Do we need to manually mark the employees as eligible somehow so we can enroll them in benefits? Is there any employee group functionality that can reference the Eligibility displayed on BN49. So far as I can tell updating the employee record to make them fall into (and out of) benefit eligible groups is a completely manual process.

Is there any report that will identify people that are eligible based on measurement periods but do not have any offers?