PPACA refers to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). When there is a value in the PPACA Override Date field, Dayforce uses that date as the hire date for the purposes of assigning initial ACA calendar periods.
Before You Begin: The PPACA Override Date field is applicable only to organizations offering health benefits in the United States.
If employees move between pay groups that have different initial measurement period calendars, Dayforce calculates the period based on the pay group that the employee is in as of the most recent of the HR event date, the hire date, or the PPACA Override Date.
When an employee is rehired, Dayforce automatically populates the PPACA Override Date field with their previous hire date if both of the following conditions are met:
- They are rehired within 13 weeks (91 days) of their termination date.
- Their length of employment is greater than their period of termination.
Note: Rehiring refers to updating an employee's employment status from a terminated status type to an active or inactive status type. This can be done through rehire forms (the Rehire, Rehire with Contract, or Candidate Hire forms), the People feature, or the HR Import. Status changes resulting from employee data mapping rules or made through non-rehire forms won't trigger Dayforce to populate the PPACA Override Date field.
If the above conditions are met, Dayforce populates the PPACA Override Date field with the employee's original hire date if it’s their first time being rehired, or last most recent hire date if they have been rehired more than once.
Also, if the PPACA Override Date field was previously populated and the conditions aren't met in the most recent rehiring, the date entered in the PPACA Override Date field is cleared when the employee is rehired.
Example:
Jane was employed from February 1, 2018 (original hire date) to February 28, 2019 (termination date) and was rehired on April 1, 2019 (4 weeks from her termination date). Upon rehire, her PPACA override date is set to February 1, 2018 because her period of termination was within 13 weeks, and her total length of service was longer than her termination period.
Continuing this example, Jane was terminated again on April 15, 2019 (most recent termination date) and rehired again on May 15, 2019 (4 weeks from her most recent termination date). Because her termination length of 4 weeks was longer than her latest employment period of 15 days, the date in the PPACA Override Date field is cleared.