After a fairly quiet period we have a new PPS release for your approval.

This release implements Service Request 83280, which modifies the way that we collect for benefits when an employee is separated from the system. 

Service Request 83280 provides the following background information: 
“UC employees who separate from service retain covered benefits until the end of the following month. The typical practice among both public and private employers is to terminate benefits on the last day of the separation month. The UC pays approximately 80% of medical premiums and 100% of dental and vision premiums, consequently substantial savings can be obtained by eliminating the additional month of coverage.” 

The Service Request asked for changes to support Coverage end dates for medical, dental, vision and legal insurance that are derived as the last day of the separation month.

A means was developed to prevent processing of “Advance” benefits deductions during the separation month for plans such as Life Insurance (Supplemental Life and Dependent Life) and AD&D that do not have stored coverage end dates. These “Advance” benefits deductions are not taken on final paychecks issued through Rush Check or other processes. 

The elimination of following month coverage is selectable by bargaining unit (i.e. a bargaining unit that has not agreed to this proposed process would continue to be covered for the month following separation). The extra month of coverage will continue for employees electing UCRP retirement and for survivors of a deceased UC employee.

From a technical perspective this install will require the execution of a one time report and then a second run to actually set the coverage end dates for employees with separation date after a specified date, the Release suggests that the date be 7/1/2012.

The release also provides a modified version of the UPAY form UPAY565A form for Bargaining Unit Table which was modified to add the new field for Ben Sep Month(Y/N).

The database table PPPBUT was modified to contain the above flag.

Timing:
The timing of this release is Date Mandated. Requested to affect separations dated July 1, 2012 and beyond. The deadline for implementation is prior to the first compute paying August benefits (i.e. the BW ending July 7, 2012). 

Please approve at your earliest convenience.

Please note:  If you have any special test cases you would like us to execute prior to installation please communicate them to us as soon as possible so that we can accommodate them in what is a fairly aggressive deployment schedule.