A case nominee is a case participant who receives payments or bills. A case nominee is assigned to each case component. Case components for product delivery cases are units of entitlement, typically financial units of entitlement, that are available with a benefit. For example, personal component, child dependent, spousal dependent are units of financial entitlement with a benefit case. A personal component could be offered at a weekly rate of $70. If the product delivery case is found eligible for this case component, the component will be delivered to the client who was nominated to receive this case component. So in this example the nominee may receive $70 payment a week.
A case may have more than one case component associated with it. A nominee can be assigned to one or more of these components. Because there are multiple case components, there can also be multiple case nominees. As such, a component assignment history is maintained for each case component. This keeps track of all the nominees assigned to one component over time.
The default case nominee for all case components is the primary client. A case participant other than the primary client can be nominated to receive benefits for a case component. For example, a person's employer can be nominated to receive a person's benefits. Alternatively, a case participant can be specified as the default nominee. This automatically assigns all case components to the case participant and eliminates the need to assign each component separately. Each time a case component is assigned to a nominee, a delivery pattern from the list of nominee's delivery patterns and a component assignment date must be entered.