---
title: Constants
summary: API reference for Constants.
status: draft
owner: SAIF Claims BOF team
last_reviewed: 2026-08-21
library: SAIF.Business.Policy
reference_type: embedded
---

# Constants

Centralizes the small set of hard-coded values reused across policy workflows, including service-center contact data, the lowest accepted submission-entry date, and the library's Y/N flag literals.

## Purpose
- Keep shared literal values in one location instead of duplicating them across policy code.
- Publish the canonical true/false flag values used by legacy integrations.
- Expose the earliest accepted submission-entry date constant to callers that validate or initialize policy data.

## Context
- Namespace: `SAIF.Business.Policy`
- Assembly/package: `SAIF.Business.Policy`

## Public members
| Member | Signature | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `SERVICE_CENTER_EMAIL_ADDRESS` | `Public Const SERVICE_CENTER_EMAIL_ADDRESS As String = "servicecenter@saif.com"` | Canonical service-center email address value used by policy components. |
| `SERVICE_CENTER_MAIL_ID` | `Public Const SERVICE_CENTER_MAIL_ID As String = "SERVIC"` | Mail identifier associated with the policy service center. |
| `MininumSubmissionEntryDate` | `Public Const MininumSubmissionEntryDate As Date = #1/1/1900#` | Lower-bound submission entry date used when callers need a minimum valid policy date. |
| `TRUE_FLAG` | `Public Const TRUE_FLAG As String = "Y"` | Canonical legacy true flag literal. |
| `FALSE_FLAG` | `Public Const FALSE_FLAG As String = "N"` | Canonical legacy false flag literal. |

## Behavioral notes
- The class contains only constants; no instance state or helper methods are defined.

## Constraints and usage notes
- The source spelling is `MininumSubmissionEntryDate`; consumers should use that exact identifier.

## Sources
- `SAIF.Business.Policy\Constants.vb`