Monitoring the COBRA Election Period 

Use

Qualified beneficiaries must decide whether or not to continue their coverage under COBRA within a certain number of days (typically 60) of the COBRA qualifying event. You therefore need to check on a regular basis whether any qualified beneficiaries have failed to indicate their elections within this period and thereby forfeited or waived their COBRA rights. These beneficiaries can be removed from the list of COBRA beneficiaries.

Procedure

  1. 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 employees (and thereby their qualified dependents) for whom you want to monitor the election period.

    4. For the selection, you can use either personnel numbers or the criteria in the General benefits information area.

  4. Choose .

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

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

Result

The system records the forfeiture/waiving 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. No reply date is attributed to the record in this case.