What benefits am I enrolled in?

A benefits record can mean two quite different things, and the difference decides what this product can tell you.

One meaning is entitlement: what you get, worth how much, paid when. The other is enrolment: which of the company's benefits you are on.

PeopleMuster holds the second. The catalogue lists what the company offers. The matrix records who is on each one.

A month selector sits over that matrix, which matters more than it first appears. Enrolment changes. Somebody joins the medical cover in March, and the record for February should not be rewritten to pretend otherwise.

Each benefit also shows how many people are on it, as a count against the headcount. Thirty-one of thirty-four on one benefit and four on another tells an HR team something about take-up that no policy document does.

The live catalogue in one company runs to medical insurance, lunch and dinner subsidies, a tool subsidy, a gym allowance, a fuel allowance, provident fund and leave encashment. That is a company's own list, not a supplied one.

A benefit switched to inactive in the catalogue stops being offered without erasing who was on it. So an old enrolment can be visible in a past month while the benefit itself is no longer in the current list.

Check your row against what you were told at your offer or your last review. Enrolment gaps are usually an administrative miss rather than a decision, and they are quick to fix once somebody names one.