BN70.1 - COBRA Participant

Use BN70.1 (COBRA Participant) to track information about COBRA participants.

You can add a COBRA participant manually using this form, automatically using
personnel actions in the Personnel Administration system, or automatically
using benefit automation reports in the Benefits system. See the Personnel
Administration and Benefits Procedures manual for information on automatically
adding COBRA participants.

If you want to add an employee or a dependent as a COBRA participant, you
only need to define the participant's occurrence and occurrence date. The
other information--including address, Social Security number, birthdate, and
so on--default from the Human Resources system.

Updated Files

    BNCOMPANY  - The Benefit Company Parameters file is accessed by this
                 program.

    LETTERCODE - The Benefit Letter Code file deletes all COBRA participant
                 letters.

    LETTERTEXT - The Benefit Letter Text file deletes all COBRA participant
                 letter text.

    PARTICIPNT - The COBRA Participant file is accessed by this program.


Referenced Files

    EMDEPEND   - The Employee Dependent file is used to access employee
                 dependent files.

    EMPLOYEE   - The Employee file is used to access employee master file.

    INSTCTRYCD -

    OCCURTYPE  - The COBRA Occurrence Type file is used to verify occurrence
                 types.

    PAEMPLOYEE - The Employee PA Information file is used to access employee
                 data.

    PARTBEN    - The COBRA Participant Benefit file is used to ensure no
                 benefits exist before deleting COBRA participants.

    PCODES     - The Human Resources Code file is used to verify human resource
                 codes.

    PRSYSTEM   - The HR Company and Process Levels file is used to access
                 company name.

    RESTRANS   - The Spending Account Transaction file is accessed to verify
                 whether a spending account plan exists.


BN70.2 - Participant Dates

Use BN70.2 (Participant Dates) to track dates that control a COBRA
participant's eligibility.

You can update these dates using this program, or by running BN170 (COBRA
Notification Report), BN171 (COBRA Letters), and BN175 (COBRA/Retiree
Outstanding Invoices).

Updated Files

    PARTICIPNT - The COBRA Participant file is accessed by this program.


Referenced Files

    BNCOMPANY  - The Benefit Company Parameters file is used to verify company
                 information.

    EMPLOYEE   - The Employee file is used to access employee name.

    OCCURTYPE  - The COBRA Occurrence Type file is used to access occurrence
                 type description and number of months coverage is extended.

    PRSYSTEM   - The HR Company and Process Levels file is used to access
                 company name.


INVOKED Programs

    HRFN