USPS-R 5.10.0 Release Notes

Summary

This release of USPS-R contains improvements, patches and new features as detailed in the full release notes below.

Important highlights from this release

1. USPSR-3611 This release of USPS-R corrects an issue with the handling of refund of deductions processed for annuities that were originally honored for city withholding.
   
   

   1. Prior to this patch when processing a refund of deduction for an honored annuity city tax was not being withheld from the refund amount.

   2. If you have processed a refund of deduction for an annuity originally honored for city withholding while live on USPS-R and do not plan to re-import you could have been affected by this issue.

      1. If you were affected an adjustment journal for city taxable gross will need to be entered.

      2. You may also want to apply an error adjustment to properly withhold city tax for the missed amount on the refund.

      3. If you have questions about whether you were affected by this issue or need assistance in correcting the problem please contact your ITC or the SSDT directly by sending e-mail to ssdt-feedback@nwoca.org.

2. USPSR-3629 Supplemental taxing options were not being correctly cross validated.
   
   

   1. An employee can only have one supplemental taxing option applied in the course of a single payroll (i.e. apply annuities to regular or apply annuities to supplemental).

   2. Prior to this fix the application was not allowing the "none" option to be used in conjunction with one of the true supplemental taxing options. 

   3. This was incorrect and has been corrected, so you can now have pay amounts taxed with the none option and one of the supplemental tax options in a single payroll.

3. USPSR-3498 The STRS advance submission file can now be transmitted directly to STRS from the USPS-R STRS advance screen.

4. USPSR-3578 user created custom fields applied to the employee can now be selected for reporting via the USPS-R Census report. 

5. USPSR-3590 The server logs are now available for display in the System→Monitor view.
   
   

   1. In addition, the ability to send your sever logs to the SSDT has been added to bottom of the Help→About screen.

   2. This will assist users and ITCs in debugging issues and will allow users and ITC staff to securely send server logs to the SSDT without involving their network operations staff.

   3. Please note: the SSDT is not notified when the server logs are transmitted, so you will need to continue to notify us, when sending your logs, by sending e-mail to ssdt-feedback@nwoca.org.

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