Focus on Eligibility/Entitlement Rules

The core rules to get your product up-and-running are those for eligibility and entitlement calculations. Do not initially implement any rules for key decision factors or decision details.

For a benefit product that has been created via the product wizard, an initial version of the eligibility/entitlement rules will automatically have been created for your product. If you are creating a new eligibility and entitlement rule set, the initial version of your eligibility/entitlement rules can hard-code the following (to be replaced by real implementations later):

• A fixed eligibility result, such as "always eligible", or "eligible for January 2010 to December 2011 only"; and
• Fixed entitlement, i.e. fixed values for all objectives, a fixed number of occurrences for any multiple objectives, and fixed entitlement for each objective (such as "always entitled").

Typically it is easier to work on single objectives before moving on to multiple objectives (see Identify the rules that govern the objectives for each case).