RECIPIENT_TYPE is a fixed lexicon which determines the recipient eligible in the Benefit Plan. This field is used by the BSS module only.

If an employee is only allowed to elect themselves in the plan, ‘Not Applicable’ should be used. If the plans allow for different participant types a recipient type can be defined at the coverage level. The type of recipient defined will filter the list of benefit recipients available to the employee for that plan during the election period. The filtration is done by comparing the recipient type lexicon values to the stored values of the relation lexicon in IECT. The system will check for a recipient type at the coverage first, if none are found it will then check the plan type to see if one has been defined at that level. If the system cannot locate a recipient type for either the coverage or plan type, all of the employee’s contacts defined in IECT will be listed for the employee to elect. The page Benefit Recipient Matrix for Open Enrollment shows which relation values fall under each of the recipient types.

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