Understanding PeopleSoft eBenefits

eBenefits Components

eBenefits comprises self-service web transactions that interact with the PeopleSoft Human Resources (HR) system. Employees use eBenefits to review, add, and update their benefits information. This list summarizes the pages that employees use in eBenefits:

• The Self Service, Benefits page is the starting place for employees to access their eBenefits information.

• eBenefits Enrollment pages enable employees to communicate their benefit choices to the organization.

• eBenefits Health pages enable employees to review their health-related benefit information by navigating from summary level pages to more detailed information.

• eBenefits Savings pages enable employees to review their savings plan information by navigating from summary-level savings plan pages to more detailed information.

• eBenefits Insurances pages enable employees to review the life insurance information by navigating from summary level pages to more detailed information.

• eBenefits Dependents/Beneficiaries pages enable employees to review information about their dependents and beneficiaries by navigating from summary-level pages to more detailed information.

• eBenefits Flexible Spending Accounts pages enable employees to review information about their health or medical spending accounts by navigating from summary-level pages to more detailed information.

• eBenefits Life Event pages are designed for employees to enter information about a recent life event such as marriage, child birth, adoption, or divorce.

• eBenefits Life Event pages enable employees to upload Life Event documents for the type of life event being processed. Benefits administrators can then review and approve or reject the documents.

eBenefits Roles and Security

Self-service transactions are targeted to specific roles, such as applicant, employee, faculty, manager, and optionee. These roles help determine:

• The transactions that an employee can access.

• The information that an employee can view.

User profiles determine default access to transactions. You create user profiles on the Maintain Security page in the User Profile component. You assign a role to each user profile.

Profiles are linked to permission lists. Permission lists identify the pages that users can access. To modify access to specific web pages for each role, you modify the permission list.

User profiles also control the data that each employee can access.

See product documentation for PeopleTools: Security Administration for more information.