Finalize Open Enrollment Elections
- Open enrollment has closed.
- Security:Manage: Benefits for Organizationsin the Benefits functional area.
You can enforce default benefit elections for employees who haven’t submitted their
elections by the close of the open enrollment window.
- Access theOpen Enrollment Status Report.
- SelectView Detailson the open enrollment that you want to finalize.
- On the Open Enrollment Details page, selectFinalize Open Enrollment.
After you finalize open enrollment, employees can’t change their elections. Benefits
Partners and Benefit Administrators can correct an employee's open enrollment elections from
the:
- Related action menu of the benefit event.
- Active and Completed Open Enrollment Status Report.
Workday:
- Automatically populates any necessary benefit elections to the employee and sets the status toFinalized.
- Determines whether the worker needs to provide Evidence of Insurability (EOI) based on the event rules. If the provider requires EOI, Workday starts the EOI process.
- Checks for events that have an event date following the finalized event with a status ofOn Hold. Workday cancels or rescinds that event, and creates a new event.
- Determines if an employee has a birthday or service anniversary that moves them to a new rate band before the end of the benefit plan year.To determine if the employee moves to a new rate band, Workday calculates if theCalculate As Ofvalue forHealth Care RateorInsurance RateequalsEvent Date. It then checks if the employee has a birthday or service anniversary before the end of the benefit plan year. If yes, Workday records that event in a transaction log with an event date of the birthday or service anniversary. Integrations based on thePayroll Interface Output Filetemplate process the event when payroll runs for that period.
To correct any enrollment elections after you finalize open enrollment, access the
Active and Completed Open Enrollment Status Report
.You can access
Benefit Premium Report - Health Care
or
Benefit Premium Report - Insurance
to see a list of benefit plan
costs for:- A specific period.
- One or more benefit plans.
- A frequency.