What's New

May Maintenance Pack for 24B

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Overview

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Feature Summary

Benefits

Benefits

Oracle Benefits is a complete, configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations to successfully evolve and adapt to the unique needs of their workforce. The solution enables setup of traditional 'one-size fits all' plans to highly complex plans that selectively target different workforce segments with different benefit packages. Self-service capabilities present the user with an out of the box intuitive guided enrollment process with contextual information and embedded analytics.

Enable Redwood Experience for Benefits Summary Page

The Benefits Summary page was recreated in the Redwood Toolset to improve the user experience by providing the same consistent functionality across Redwood pages.

Benefits Summary Page

Benefits Summary Page

Flex Credits Page

Here’s how you view the Benefits Summary Redwood page:

1. On the Home page, click My Client Groups.
2. Click the Show More link under Quick Actions.
3. Search for Benefits Summary.

This feature lets you experience Redwood’s high-fidelity interactions.

Steps to Enable

Here’s how you enable the Benefits Summary Redwood page:

1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area.
2. Search for and click the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
3. Search for and select the ORA_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED profile option.
4. Select Site from the Level list.
5. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
6. Click Save.
7. Search for and select the ORA_BEN_ADMINISTRATIVE_ENROLLMENT_REDWOOD_ENABLED profile.
8. Select Site from the Level list.
9. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
10. Click Save and Close.

Tips And Considerations

Note: This page is under development and will have additional features added in the coming releases. Please continue to use the Benefits Summary page available in the Benefits Service Center.

Access Requirements

Required Privileges, Duty Roles, and Data Security Policies

• If you have custom roles, ensure that the respective privileges and aggregate privileges of the functional modules are part of your role hierarchy.
• After adding the privileges and aggregate privileges, regenerate the data role and verify the user interfaces.
• If you have direct job roles assigned to users, you need to create data role out of the job role for the data security to work.

Security

Aggregate Privilege:

As a Benefits Administrator, Benefits Manager, or Benefits Specialists, you should have following Privileges:

• Search Benefit Person (BEN_SEARCH_BENEFIT_PERSON_PRIV
• Use REST Service - Benefit Relations List of Values (BEN_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_BENEFIT_RELATIONS_LOV_PRIV)
• Access HCM Common Components (HRC_ACCESS_HCM_COMMON_COMPONENTS_PRIV)
• Manage HCM Person Note (HRT_MANAGE_HCM_PERSON_NOTE_PRIV)

Also, you need one of the following privileges:

• Manage Benefit Participant Enrollment Result by Administrator (ORA_BEN_MANAGE_ENROLLMENT_RESULT_BY_ADMIN)
• View Benefit Participant Enrollment Result by Administrator (ORA_BEN_VIEW_ENROLLMENT_RESULT_BY_ADMIN)

Inherited by Seeded Duty Roles:

• Benefits Enrollment Maintenance

Inherited by Seeded Duty Roles:

• Benefits Administrator
• Benefits Manager
• Benefits Specialist

Data Security Policies:

• For the Enrollment Region:
  • View: View Benefit Participant Enrollment Result for table Person Details (BEN_VIEW_ENRT_RSLT_DATA on PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F)
  • Manage: Manage Benefit Participant Enrollment Result for table Person Details (BEN_MANAGE_ENRT_RSLT_DATA on PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F)
• For the Benefit Relationship list of values
  • Manage Benefit Relation (BEN_MANAGE_BENEFIT_RELATION_DATA on BEN_BENEFIT_RELATIONS_F)

Update 24B

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

The table includes a chronological listing of document changes.

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this What’s New:

• Release Updates (24A, 24B, 24C, and 24D)
• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

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Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• HCM Common What's New - In this What's New you will find feature that are used across applications.
• Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon.

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.

• Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1). These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.
• Oracle Help Center – Here you will find guides, videos and searchable help.
• Release Readiness – New Feature Summary, What’s New, Feature Listing Spreadsheet, Spotlights and Release Training.

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Feature Summary

Benefits

Benefits

Oracle Benefits is a complete, configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations to successfully evolve and adapt to the unique needs of their workforce. The solution enables setup of traditional 'one-size fits all' plans to highly complex plans that selectively target different workforce segments with different benefit packages. Self-service capabilities present the user with an out of the box intuitive guided enrollment process with contextual information and embedded analytics.

Additional Plan Type Groupings

You can now use 6 new plan type groupings along with the existing 12 to group benefit plans and plan types. Plan type grouping enables you to group different plans for displaying them in the self-service enrollment flow. This grouping lets you have different text, display, and rate column information for each country.

This enhancement reflects in the following areas in Benefits:

All the plan type groupings are enabled by default in the Configure Plan Type Grouping Display page. The functionality of the Display and Rate Column Display fields remains the same. If you want to change the plan dependency enabled on a plan type grouping, delete the plan dependency before updating the self-service grouping.

To use this enhancement, navigate to Benefits Administration > Plan Configuration > Configure Plan Type Groupings Display.

New Plan Type Groupings

New Plan Type Groupings

This enhancement provides you with greater flexibility in using plan type groupings.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Access Requirements

Users with these roles can access the feature:

• Employee
• Benefits Manager
• Benefits Administrator
• Benefits Specialist

Use Home Address for Service Area Eligibility

You can now use the employee’s home address instead of the primary or work address for eligibility profiles. For example, you want the benefit rates to be based on the home postal code or service area for a remote employee. A new profile option is added to allow service area and postal code eligibility profiles for such purposes.

Here are some considerations when you use home address for service area eligibility enhancement:

• Eligibility profiles use the employee’s primary address by default.
• The profile option is enabled at the site level only, it can’t be enabled at any other level.
• The profile option enables this feature for all eligibility profiles across modules.
• The profile option works anywhere the eligibility profiles are used such as variable rates or variable coverages.
• The profile option only works with eligibility profiles. You can’t use it elsewhere in the application.
• We don’t recommend you to change the profile option back and forth.

This enhancement allows you to offer benefits to your employees based on home address.

Steps to Enable

Here's how you enable home address for service area eligibility:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, search for the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
2. Search for the ORA_BEN_ELIG_ENABLE_SVC_AREA_EVALUATION_WITH_HOME_ADDRESS profile option code.
3. Change Site level from N to Y.
4. Click Save and Close.

Access Requirements

Users with these roles can access the feature:

• Benefits Manger
• Benefits Specialist
• Benefits Administrator

Updated Default Behavior for Timeliness Evaluation of Life Events

The Timeliness Days field is now defaulted to 90 for new life events and any existing life events if their existing values are null.  For example, a salary change life event that was entered late can back out your open enrollment life event. This causes additional work for the administrators. The new default behavior for timeliness evaluation feature helps prevent such situations. The Timeliness Evaluation and Timeliness Days fields of all life events will now be populated. You can choose to have life events voided automatically or placed in manual status to review and determine the best course of action.

To access the configuration, navigate to Benefits Administration > Plan Configuration > Benefit Life Events.

Timeliness Settings

Here are some considerations when you use the new defaulted behavior for timeliness evaluation of life events:

• Plan copy import auto defaults the timeliness evaluation and timeliness days fields when importing plan design from an environment with null values. You don’t need to update these fields in the source environment before exporting.
• When you create life events, the Timeliness Evaluation and Timeliness Days fields are set automatically. You can change the values in each of these fields to meet your business requirements.
• You can’t use a timeliness period rule with timeliness evaluation or days. 
• Evaluate all your existing life events to ensure that they meet your business requirements.
• The Timeliness Days field uses the life event occurred date and the reported date to determine when to place the life event in Manual or in Voided status. For example, if the Timeliness Days field is set to 31 with resulting evaluation to be voided and the life event occurred on date is December 15, 2023. If the employee reports the event as of January 31, 2024, the event will be set to Voided.

This enhancement ensures that the life events aren’t inadvertently backed out and it reduces the additional work for administrators.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Access Requirements

Users with these roles can access the feature:

• Benefits Manger
• Benefits Specialist
• Benefits Administrator

Additional Certification Types

You can now use additional certification types that are added to the enrollment, dependent, and beneficiary certifications.

Here’s the list of certifications that are enhanced:

Certification Types

Certification Types

Here are some considerations when you use this enhancement:

• No changes are made to the existing certification types.
• The lookup tables are not extensible.
• New document types corresponding to the new certification types are available within document of records.
• Minimum attachments needed for all document types is 1 and you can upload the attachments through pending actions.

This enhancement allows more flexibility when creating certifications. For example, now it is easier to track the exact documents that you are looking for.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Access Requirements

Users with these roles can access the feature:

• Benefits Manger
• Benefits Administrator