If an employee is eligible for three allowance plans but none of the plans are included in the compensation package they are eligible for, what happens?

• A. The plan will not default in, but you can manually select the plan(s) during the compensation step of a transaction
• B. The plan will not default in, and you cannot select it later
• C. The system will automatically enroll one plan
• D. The plans are ignored entirely

Answer: (A)

The key idea is how Workday handles default enrollment versus manual selection during compensation. If an employee is eligible for certain allowance plans but none of those plans are included in the compensation package, there’s no plan set to enroll automatically for that cycle. You won’t see any default plan applied.

However, because the employee is eligible for those plans, you can still apply them by manually selecting the plan(s) during the compensation step of a transaction. This means the plans aren’t automatically granted, but they can be added as needed through the compensation process.

The other options don’t fit because automatic enrollment isn’t triggered when none of the plans are in the package, and the plans aren’t ignored—manual selection is allowed during compensation.