Benefits plan enrolment

Plan maintenance during the benefits year

During the benefits year, certain life events may mean you need to change your Flexible Benefits package. Providing that an appropriate adjustment reason has been created for you by your Benefits Administrator, you can change the existing benefit levels of your selected benefit plans during the benefits year.

Any changes you make will affect the flexed valueof your benefit choices, and/or the total value of your flex fund.

The standard valueof your benefits choices is not affected by any life event changes, except in the situation where, for example, you have been promoted to a higher salary band during the benefits year, and the standard value of your benefits package has been increased due to this promotion.

Cost summary

Using the Cost Summary option on the ESS selection screen, you can also display an overview of your selected benefits, including information on:

The costs of the standard and Flexible Benefits you have selected

If your organisation applies the National Insurance Cost Neutrality principle to your benefit choices, any differences in employer National Insurance Contributions (NICs) produced as a result of your benefit choices will affect your salary. Applying the National Insurance Neutrality principle, if your choices result in a saving in employer NICs for your organisation, this saving will be passed on to you. Conversely, if your choices produce increased NICs, your employer will deduct this increase from you. The Cost Summary option will also display the value of any additions or decuctions from your salary, as a result of the application of the NI cost neutrality principle during your benefits enrolment.

By choosing the Display Salary Detail option, you can view the effects of your benefit choices on your monthly salary by reviewing your Pre-Flexand Post-Flexsalary.

Payslip simulation

You are able to generate a simulation of your payslip by choosing the Payslip Simulation option. This will display a simulation of your payslip from the first payroll period after your benefit choices have become effective. This payslip will therefore reflect the effects on your salary of the benefit choices you make during enrolment.

The payroll results shown during this payroll simulation are an estimation and may differ from your actual results due to possible changes in data between the time of the simulation and the live payroll run.

Useful links

Depending on your organisation’s configuration of the ESS service for GB FlexBens enrolment, you may also be able to select useful links which will allow you to view other internet sites relevant to your choice of Flexible Benefits.

Dependents and beneficiaries

Options also exist for you to display any dependents and/or nominated beneficiaries you have included within your chosen Flexible Benefits package.

Customising and modification options(for system administrators only)

The name of the ESS service for GB FlexBens enrolment is PZ63. You can find all the relevant data for this service in the SAP@Web Studio .

If you want to provide links for your ESS users to further sources of information about plans, plan types, or to general information, you need to set up these links in the Benefits Administration IMG, in the section Employee Self-Service .

SAP recommends thatyou read the Implementation Guide (IMG) documentation for the Customising step under  BenefitsAdministration Employee Self-Service Set ESS Parameters , before you activate the payslip simulation function in this ESS service. This document describes the function's limitations.

See Also:

The Annual Enrolment Process

The Life Event Change Enrolment Process