2020-03-18 USPS-R Completed Work Review
Releases Since Our Last Meeting
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
A bug was introduced in version 6.8.0 that caused erroneous errors during payroll initialization for some districts. This has now been resolved.
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