PeopleSoft Benefit Administration Business Flow and

Tables
Benefits Administration Is:
An Automated Eligibility Processing System
Delivered by PeopleSoft
Driven by Tables and Rules
Based on Employee Data
Ben Admin is Driven By:
Tables And Rules
These Include
Deduction Tables
Benefit Plan Tables
Geographic Location Tables
Benefit Program Tables
Eligibility Rules
Event Rules
Calculation Rules
Ben Admin Utilizes
Data from Employee Records
Personal Data
Job Data
Employment Data
This data helps Ben Admin determine eligibility for
various benefit options
Ben Admin Eligibility Rules
Benefits for US Employees is primarily driven by:
Employees Date of Birth
Home Address
Work Location
Company & Paygroup combination
Employee Class
Eligibility Configuration 1,2, & 3
By setting a unique combination of these values,
Ben Admin is able to offer employees the
appropriate set of benefits options.
Ben Admin Event Classes
Event Class, is a way of equating actions on Job to
Benefits eligibility events and guaranteeing that
they will perform in a certain fashion each time
Event Classes have
1:1 correlation from job in some cases
Default class if no 1:1 correlation
Open Enrollment event class
Ben Admin Event Classes
Examples of Events that have a 1:1 Correlation
Hire Action = HIR Event
Family Status Change Action = FSC Event
Transfer Action = XFR Event
Termination Action = TER Event
Retirement Action = RET Event
There are others that are 1:1 as well
Ben Admin Event Classes
If there is no event class that matches the action
on Job, Ben Admin assigns it to the default event
class, MSC, or Miscellaneous
Each event class is assigned to a set of rules
Ben Admin Event Rules
Event Rules Define
The Options that are available to the employee
for a particular type of event
Family Status Changes dont allow the
employee to change their medical or dental
plan
Transfer events allow the employee to change
medical and/or dental plans
What are Benefit Programs
A Benefit Program is a collection of benefits
options that a particular segment of the population
is eligible to receive.
US Benefit programs are primarily driven by
Employee Class
The Working Tables
Ben Admin does all its work in 6 major tables
BAS_Partic
BAS_Partic_Plan
BAS_Partic_Option
BAS_Partic_Dependent
BAS_Partic_Cost
BAS_Partic_Invest
These are viewable as the Employee Event
Summary panel group in Administer Automated
Benefits
BAS = Benefits Admin System

Bas Partic
Contains the high level keys for the whole bas partic
structure
EmplID, Benefit Program, Event Class
The relevant job info
Various date features
Overall status of the event
Bas Partic Plan
Primarily the repository of the employees current
benefit elections
The benefit plans that the employee had coming into
this event
Where the changes to benefit plans are recorded
Bas Partic Option
Table that stores all the options for each plan type
that the employee is eligible for in their benefit
program
Bas Partic Cost
Contains all the costs associated with each option
that Ben Admin has calculated in the Bas Partic
Option section of the table
Contains per pay period information as well as
annual amounts
Bas Partic Dependent
Table that stores the enrolled dependents for
medical and/or dental by plan type
Stores beneficiary designations for Life Insurance
elections
Bas Partic Investment
This records investment options for savings type
plans (401(k))

Ben Admin Base Tables
Once Ben Admin is complete with an event (i.e.
Finalized), it copies the plan election and
dependent info to the BASE (i.e. posting tables)
Once the elections are in these BASE tables,
Payroll and others are able to view the employees
elections
Benefits Administration
The Posting Tables (Base Tables)
Employees Elections are recorded in the following
tables:
Health Benefits
Health Dependent
Life & AD&D Benefits
Life & ADD Beneficiary
Disability Benefits
FSA Benefits
Savings Plans
These tables are viewable under the Use menu in
Administer Base Benefits