Describe the chain of records from a participant joining a programme to receiving a service.

It is a four-step chain, and most scenario questions are really asking which link you are standing on.

1. Program is the programme itself — the thing the organisation runs.
2. Program Enrollment connects a participant to that programme; it is the record of joining.
3. Benefit describes what the programme provides, and Benefit Assignment connects the participant and their enrolment to a benefit, tracking how much of it they should receive.
4. Benefit Disbursement records what was actually delivered, and when. The gap between assignment and disbursement is the gap between entitlement and delivery, which is usually the number programme managers care about.
5. For scheduled delivery there is a planning layer too: Benefit Schedule with a recurrence schedule plans the deliveries, and Benefit Session represents each planned occurrence — which is what attendance is taken against.
6. Program Cohort and Program Cohort Member sit alongside this to group participants by intake, so an autumn cohort can be reported separately without splitting the programme in two.