Monitoring the COBRA Election Period 

Procedure

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       1.      From the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Human Resources ® Personnel Management ® Benefits ® COBRA ® Election Period Monitor.

       2.      Specify the key date for which you want to check for expired COBRA election periods.

       3.      Specify the set of employees (and thereby their qualified dependents) for whom you want to monitor the election period.

For the selection, you can use either personnel numbers, the criteria in the General benefits information area, or the selection buttons at the top of the screen.

       4.      Choose Execute.

A list is displayed showing COBRA‑qualified beneficiaries whose election period has expired.

       5.      Select the beneficiaries for whom you want to record forfeiture of COBRA rights and choose Reject.

Result

The system records the forfeiture of COBRA rights by delimiting the COBRA-Qualified Beneficiary record (infotype 0211) to the date before the processing date and creating a new record from the processing date with the status Waived rights.

No reply date is attributed to the record, as would be the case if you entered an explicit waiver in the COBRA Participation tool.