# The inlichtingenfiche and socio-economic data

> Claiming a dossier, drafting the inlichtingenfiche, what the agent may prefill, submitting, updating, releasing and marking a dossier handled, and the socio-economic data section.

Linking a dossier connects it to the case. Submitting the inlichtingenfiche is
what actually claims it in eLys, the formal statement of how the deceased
will be buried or cremated.

## Drafting

The inlichtingenfiche panel opens as a form on a linked dossier. It stays
folded by default, since claiming a dossier is a deliberate step, not
something to do in passing.

(Screenshot: The Inlichtingenfiche section opened in the eLys block, marked Draft and Ready to claim, with the funeral type, processing time and cemetery fields, and the Save fiche and Submit and claim dossier buttons.)

You can save the draft at any point without submitting it. Saving is cheap
and reversible: it just keeps your progress on the case, and does not touch
eLys.

- **Route**: burial or cremation, which changes the rest of the form.
- **Processing term**: standard, or accelerated with a note explaining why.
- **Burial details**: the municipality, whether the cemetery is managed by
  the municipality, a crematorium or is private, and its name or a foreign
  location.
- **Cremation details**: the crematorium and what happens to the ashes,
  including where they go and, where relevant, who the ashes are entrusted
  to.

The panel lists what is still missing before the dossier can be submitted, so
you always know what is left rather than finding out on submission.

## What the agent may prefill

Once a dossier is linked, Lethra fills in the burial or cremation route from
the case's funeral type, if one is set. It does this once per case and never
overwrites a route that is already on the draft.

The agent can also fill in other fields from what it learns on the case: its
services, meeting notes or conversations with the family. It does not guess
at anything the family or your firm has not decided yet. When fields are
still missing, it asks your team for exactly those, and when the draft is
complete it tells you it is ready to submit.

## Submitting, updating, releasing and marking handled

> **Caution:** Submitting the inlichtingenfiche is what claims the dossier in eLys. This
> step, and every change to it afterwards, is always done by a person at your
> firm, never by the agent on its own.
- **Submit and claim dossier**: submitting the draft for the first time
  claims the dossier. Submission is only possible once the required fields
  are filled in.
- **Send correction**: once claimed, saving further changes and sending them
  updates the same inlichtingenfiche in eLys.
- **Release dossier**: gives up the claim, so another funeral home can claim
  it. Use it, for example, if it was claimed by the wrong firm or case.
- **Mark as handled**: closes the dossier in eLys once everything is done.

The last three only appear once the inlichtingenfiche has been submitted.
Releasing and marking as handled both ask you to confirm first.

The panel shows the current status of the inlichtingenfiche: draft, submitted,
released or handled, so anyone opening the case can see where it stands at a
glance.

## Socio-economic data

Alongside the inlichtingenfiche, eLys asks for socio-economic data about the
deceased for Statbel, and optionally about the mother and the father or
co-mother. This lives in a separate section on the linked dossier:
education, occupational status, social status, housing situation and
household situation, recorded for each person where eLys asks for it.

(Screenshot: The Socio-economic data section, three of four filled in for the deceased: education, employment and social status, with the mother and father as optional sections and Save to eLys.)

Like the inlichtingenfiche, this data is only saved to eLys when you click
**Save to eLys**; nothing is sent as you type. The agent can read what eLys
already holds and gather missing answers from the family or meeting notes,
but only a person at your firm saves it. The section tracks how much
of the deceased's information is filled in, and shows when it was last saved.

## Next

Back to how the connection works: [Connecting eLys](/docs/elys/connecting/).

Source: https://lethra.ai/docs/elys/inlichtingenfiche-and-socio-economic/