# Benefits

URL: /systems/people/benefits · Id: `capability:benefits`

> Benefits set up and run employee health, retirement and other plans, with enrollment, payroll deductions and required plan filings.

Benefits set up and run employee health, retirement and other plans, with enrollment, payroll deductions and required plan filings.

## Contract
| Clause | Terms |
| --- | --- |
| Starts | A [Setting](/business/nouns/setting) at the first employee, or a headcount the law ties to a plan. |
| Signs | The board adopts each plan, and an officer signs its documents ([Governance](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/governance)). |
| [Enrollment](/business/nouns/enrollment) | Each employee enrolls in their window. Deductions flow to [Payroll](/systems/people/payroll). |
| Filings | Each plan report files on its annual clock. |
| While held | Not used. Benefits start once the [Startup](/business/nouns/startup) has its own [Company](/business/nouns/company). |

## Verbs
None.

## Interfaces
- [API](/code/api/reference)
- [SDK](/code/sdk/reference)
- [CLI](/code/cli/reference)
- [MCP](/code/mcp/reference)

## Example
A clinical-trial matching service reaches 20 employees and adopts a health plan and a retirement plan. Fourteen employees enroll in the first window, and deductions start with the next pay run.