---
title: Who is covered
description: You can create or modify who is covered under an employee benefit plan using the HR Health Benefits module.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/hr-service-delivery/t\_WhosCovered.html
release: australia
product: HR Service Delivery
classification: hr-service-delivery
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [HR Profile, Case and Knowledge Management, HR Service Delivery, Employee Service Management]
---

# Who is covered

You can create or modify who is covered under an employee benefit plan using the HR Health Benefits module.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_hr\_core.manager

## About this task

Employees request to create or modify who is covered under their benefit plan by submitting a request through the HR Service Portal. Once a contact is added to the HR application, HR agents can add a contact as a beneficiary to an employee benefit record.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **HR Profile** > **Who is covered**.

2.  Click **New** or an employee to open a record.

3.  Complete the form.

    \(The fields you see depend on how the form is configured and what fields are selected to display.\)

<table id="table_opj_hct_nv"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Employee

</td><td>

The user who submitted the case. Click the **Lookup using list** icon and select the employee.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Contact

</td><td>

Click the **Lookup using list** icon to view a list of contacts for the employee.Click **New** to enter a new contact for the employee. You can specify the relationship to the employee and emergency contact here.

</td></tr><tr><td>

First name

</td><td>

First name of the beneficiary. Displays from **Contact** information.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Last name

</td><td>

Last name of beneficiary. Displays from **Contact** information.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Relationship

</td><td>

Relationship to the employee.

</td></tr><tr><td>

National tax ID

</td><td>

Social security number of the beneficiary or tax ID number for a trust account.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Date of birth

</td><td>

Beneficiary birth date.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Gender

</td><td>

Gender of the person being covered.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>4.  Click **Submit**.

    The person covered is listed in the **Who is covered** list.

5.  To modify who is covered data, use the **Who is covered** list.

    You can use the list search menu by typing the who is covered name and pressing Enter. You can also search on the employee name the same way.

6.  Click the who is covered name to open the form.

7.  Modify the form.

8.  Click **Update**.


**Parent Topic:**[HR Profile](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/hr-service-delivery/c_HRProfileRecords.md)