Releases Since Our Last Meeting

• USPS-R 6.8.0 Release Notes

  • New Features

    • Added new Tax Estimator capability to replace and enhance Classic TAXTAB functionality

  •  Improvements

    • Added the total number of female employees and certified employees to the Pay Report 

    • All-or-nothing payroll item withholding was implemented

    • Payroll item processing order improved (see documentation: Payroll Item#OrderinWhichPayrollItemsareProcessed)

    • Added an error when initializing a Payroll when a Position with no active payroll accounts is processed

    • Added an error when initializing a Payroll when an Employee with no Federal Tax record is processed

    • Allow Non Contract compensations to be paid Daily in addition to Hourly

    • Add ability to include Compensation Amount Earned, Amount Paid, Amount Docked and Pays Paid in a custom report

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed rare Federal tax rounding discrepancy

    • Fixed problem with negative gross in combination with a Future Pay specific payroll account

    • Correct SERS Surcharge report date selection criteria

    • Exclude voided checks from STRS Monthly report

• USPS-R 6.8.1 Release Notes

  • A bug was introduced in version 6.8.0 that caused erroneous errors during payroll initialization for some districts.  This has now been resolved.

• USPS-R 6.9.0 Release Notes

  • Improvements

    • Tax Estimator now separates SERS/STRS from other Annuities

    • Federal tax table high gross limit for calculations raised

    • Updated the SERS Surcharge calculations for FY 2020

    • Add validation to ensure invalid accounts are not charged during payroll

    • Remove inactive accounts from drop-down selection

    • Prevent accounts that have not been 'synced' with USASR from being included in a payroll

  • Bug Fixes for STRS Advance

    • Fix the amount paid back calculation in regards to imported history

    • Handle deferred dock, negative MIS pays, voids and unvoids correctly

    • Properly handle advance error adjustments

    • Fix problem where prior FY earnings were reported for following year

    • Fix error when rehired retiree flag was null on Strs Item

Upcoming Releases

• USPS-R 6.10.0

  • Bug Fixes

    • Multiple STRS Advance bug fixes

    • Fix bug in Void / Un-void that prevents 'Days Worked' from being updated

    • Fix bug in Tax Estimator to pull imported payroll info correctly

    • Fix bug in Tax Estimator to pull info from multiple compensations correctly

  • Improvements

    • Add warning at the time of payroll initialization if pay date is in July and STRS Advance has not been run

    • Update STRS Advance Config to display advance and pay back amounts based on advance flag

• USPS-R 6.11.0

  • Any outstanding STRS Advance issues

  • Update SERS Surcharge Report to be included in the file archive