Course Description for Benefits Administration

In this course, as a plan administrator, you will learn how to:

• Administer the basic data required for benefit plans.
• Enter and publish benefit plans.
• Process incoming requests for new and changed plan enrollment for employees.
• Distribute enrollment information to providers, payroll and employees.

In this course, as an employee, you will learn how to:

• Use the self-service web pages to request for new and changed benefits due to an annual review or a qualifying event.
• Maintain your dependents information. 

Course Length

The estimated time to complete the total course is 4 hours.

Target Audience

This course is designed for HR Administrators and for employees using the self-service functionality. 

Benefits Administration

This chapter includes the following lessons:

• Maintain Benefit Plans (Basic for HR Administrators).
• Benefits Self-Service (Basic for Employees).
• Process Benefits Requests (Basic for HR Administrator).

By the end of the Maintain Benefit Plans lesson, you should know how to:

• Create option lists.
• Create and publish benefit plans.
• Set up eligibility rules.

By the end of the Benefits Self-Service lesson, you should know how to:  

• View your current enrollment.
• Request for changes in your enrollment.
• Maintain your dependents information.

By the end of the Process Benefits Requests lesson, you should know how to:

• View and administer incoming requests.
• Distribute enrollment information to providers, payroll and employees.

Prerequisites

Before starting the lessons in this chapter, you should know how to navigate in IFS Applications.