2021-02-17 USPS-R Completed Work Review
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Releases Since Our Last Meeting
Bug Fixes
Correct error found in rounding employer fixed amounts for second pay to match Classic
Correct withholding when refunding an Annuity that should not withhold City Tax amounts
Fix the Member Deposits calculation for SERS Employees who have multiple position level employer pickup earnings
Add employer amounts to the HSA ACH even if the employee amounts are zero or less
Improvements
W2 ITIN number updated to use all zeros for W2 submission file per IRS specifications
Add new COVID fields to the Redesign Importer
Prior to importing in redesign, please make sure you have the most recent version of the classic extract procedures. They have been updated to include the new covid fields.
New Features
Save and Recall Canned Reporting
STRS Report
SERS Per Pay Report
CENSUS Report
Benefit Obligation by Account
Benefit Obligation by Employee
AFFORD Report
Classic W2 Submission files all end in the file extension .SEQ
Redesign used the .SEQ extension, but multiple tax entities are requesting the file have the .txt extension
There are no changes being made to the submission files, just changing the extension
This will prevent the users from having to change the extension before upload
If you have already created the submission files, there is no need to run them again. You can change the file extension from .SEQ to .txt
After working with CCA to test our W2 Submission layout, it was discovered that we need to update a few items.
This issue corrects the items CCA requires for tax year 2020 on the W2 submission.
If you have already created the CCA file for your district in redesign, you should regenerate the CCA submission.
Bug Fixes
Correct bug that was incorrectly adding employer pickup values to the history. These values were never used if the employee was not a pick up employee, but it was confusing to see the values in the payment grids.
Improvements
Improved the AFFORD report to use the determined date range for the employee in the Days and Month calculation
Allow Non-Taxable Reimbursement to be saved without applying to retirement
If the user entered a '-' character in the W2 Configuration Submitter EIN field AND the district was setup to submit for themselves, the dash was included in the RA record.
This will cause the file to be rejected.
Once this change is installed, the district can rerun the submission and it will correctly remove the '-' character in the RA record.
A new XML tag was added to the W2 XML output file
<buildingDepartment></buildingDepartment>
Correct the year ODJFS is saved to in the file archive
Correct internal error when processing Indiana W2 Submission file
Correct calculation for QTD Employer's Medicare Contributions in Form 941 on the Quarter Report
Bug Fixes
Outstanding Payables - Error during posting would prevent previous items posted from being reported to the archive
W2 Control number was skipping if employees have multiple pay items for the same configuration
W2 XML - City Tax Items are rarely excluded from the output file
Items ARE included in the submission and pdf reports
Improvements
Allow users with USPS_ADMIN_USER_PASSWORD user permission to change passwords in USPS
This was updated to be consistent with USAS
User will still need the USPS_ADMIN_USER_VIEW permission to view USPS Users
Update Attendance post to payroll to allow modification of pay amounts fields
New Features
Add new back end mass loader for Employees
Headers are the same as before, how the records are loaded on the server was improved
Upcoming Releases
USPS-R 6.32.0 Release Notes
Improvements
Internal changes to the Payroll structure
Improve UI performance through more effective caching
Grid Performance Improvements
Improvements from 9.6% - 82.5%
New Features
Mass Loaders
Position
Payroll Items
Payroll Item Configurations
USPS-R 6.33.0 Release Notes
New Features
Mass Load Leaves
Mass Load Payable Adjustments