ASSIGN BENEFICIARIES TO BENEFIT PLANS

Use this screen to link employees, benefit plans, and beneficiaries together for assigning primary and contingent beneficiaries to life insurance plans. To assign a beneficiary to a benefit plan, you must link the beneficiary with the employee on the Manage Employee Dependents/Beneficiaries screen and select the Beneficiary or Both option in the Type group box.

The benefit plan must be a Life Insurance plan that is set up on the Manage Benefit Plans screen.

You cannot assign beneficiaries to benefit plans until you have set up the Manage Employee Dependents/Beneficiaries screen. After setting up that screen, you can add to this screen at any time and enter an unlimited number of records, provided that the Percent column for each beneficiary type adds up to 100%.

Location

Identification

Employee

Enter, or use to select, the ID number of the employee whose beneficiaries you want to assign to a benefit plan. Costpoint validates your entry against the data entered on the Manage Employee Information screen. This is a required field.

Name

This field displays the name of the employee.

Plan Details

Benefit Plan

Enter, or click to select, the code for the benefit plan you want to assign to this beneficiary. Costpoint validates your entry against the Benefit Plans table. The description of the benefit plan displays in the field to the right. This is a required field.

Effective Date

Enter, or click to select, the date on which beneficiaries were assigned to this plan for this employee. The date must be in MM/DD/YYYY format. This field is required.

Notary Date

Enter, or click to select, the date on which this assignment was notarized. The date must be in MM/DD/YYYY format.

Clauses

Equal Shares or all to the survivors

Select this check box if primary and/or contingent beneficiaries receive equal shares of the proceeds from the employee's life insurance plan.

Unequal Shares or all to the survivors

Select this check box if primary and/or contingent beneficiaries receive unequal shares of the proceeds from the employee's life insurance plan.

Common Disaster Clause

Select this check box if distribution of the proceeds of this employee's life insurance plan is governed by the Common Disaster Clause.

Unborn Children Clause

Select this check box if distribution of the proceeds of this employee's life insurance plan is affected by the Unborn Children Clause.

Details

Use this group box to define  the type of beneficiaries for the employee. Click to create a new line.

Type

From  the drop-down list, select one of the following settings to indicate the type of beneficiary in this required field. Valid options are.

Beneficiary Name

This non-editable field displays the beneficiary's name, as specified on the Manage Employee Dependents/Beneficiaries screen.

SSN

This non-editable field displays the nine-digit Social Security Number of this beneficiary, as specified on the Manage Employee Dependents/Beneficiaries screen.

Gender

This field displays the code for the beneficiary's sex, depending on the option you selected in the Gender group box on the Manage Employee Dependents/Beneficiaries screen.

Date of Birth

This non-editable field displays the beneficiary's date of birth as specified on the Manage Employee Dependents/Beneficiaries screen.

Relationship

This non-editable field displays the beneficiary's relationship to this employee, as specified on the Manage Employee Dependents/Beneficiaries screen.

Percent

Enter the percent of shares this beneficiary receives in the event of a claim payout. This value must be between 1% and 100%.

This field is required.