Before the eligibility and entitlement engine processes reassessment details, it must define the reassessment period. The eligibility and entitlement engine uses the eligibility and entitlement engine from date, the cover to date of the case, and the nominee delivery pattern to define the start and end dates for the reassessment period. (At a low-level, the eligibility and entitlement engine also uses the case effective date; see Using the Case Effective Date.) The start date of the reassessment period is the first nominee delivery date on or before the eligibility and entitlement engine from date. The end date of the reassessment period is the nominee delivery date on or after the cover to date of the case. Based on the sample data, the start date of the reassessment period is March 12th; the end date of the reassessment period is April 30th.
As part of defining the reassessment period, in addition to defining the start and end dates of the reassessment period, the eligibility and entitlement engine returns a list of all delivery dates, beginning with the start date of the reassessment period and ending on the end date of the reassessment period. This list of dates is used for comparing the processed ILIs to the financial data for the virtual financial components. Based on the sample data, the list of dates are as follows: March 12th, March 19th, March 26th, April 2nd, April 9th, April 16th, April 23rd, and April 30th.
The change that triggers reassessment determines what information is used to calculate the eligibility and entitlement engine from date. The change in certification period has triggered the reassessment for the above-described reassessment period. This change in certification impacts the case from the case start date; thus, the eligibility and entitlement engine from date is set to the case start date. The eligibility and entitlement engine from date is not always set to the case start date. For example, an evidence change that triggers reassessment would only impact the case during the time period that evidence set is active. In this second example, the eligibility and entitlement engine from date is set to the evidence activation start date.