Pay Period (PP) 06 Calendar Year 2017 Release Notes
Projects marked with an asterisk (*) are available for testing in the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment.
Incident Number |
Agency-Specific or Community-Wide |
Project Title |
Description of the Change |
|---|---|---|---|
278619* |
Agency-specific OCC |
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Direct Submission of Front-End System Interface (FESI) from Schwab to the National Finance Center (NFC) |
System modifications will be made to allow Schwab to transmit FESI files for OCC to NFC for processing. |
1007914 |
Agency-specific OSC |
Office of Special Counsel (OSC) Automatic Processing for Within Rate Increase and Tenure |
System modifications will be made to the Bi-weekly Examination Analysis and Reporting System (BEAR) to automatically process within rate increases (WRI) and change in tenure for all OSC employees. |
1040309* |
Agency-specific USAID |
United States (U.S.) Agency for International Development (USAID) New Personnel Office Identifier (POI) of 2960 for Inspector General (IG) Employees |
System modifications will be made to establish POI 2960 for USAID. Additionally, the electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) file to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will be generated to include the following information for USAID employees AM-1011 Washington and AM-2011 Oversees:
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1086075* |
Community-wide |
Masking Additional Information in Employee Personal Page (EPP) |
System modifications will be made to increase security of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in EPP and the Reporting Center (RPCT) for all customers. |
1086080* |
Agency-specific USPTO |
Position Management System Online (PMSO) Official title code of 0029 and Earnings Limitation Value N |
System modifications will be made to allow an Earnings Limitation value of Y for PMSO Official Title Code 0029 for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Currently, the value defaults to N. |
1094123 |
Community-wide |
Modify Remarks Code M67, Personnel Action Request (PAR) |
System modifications will be made to eliminate the auto population of PAR Remarks code M67 on Nature of Action Code (NOAC) 350, Death, or NOAC 354, Death in the Line of Duty. |
1170013* |
Agency-specific IRS |
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Add Header/Trail Record to Bi-Weekly Examination Analysis and Reporting System (BEAR) |
System modifications will be made to add a header and footer to BEAR records for IRS to ensure that the entire file is received by NFC. |
1187228* |
Agency-specific USDA |
Temporary Limited Employment: Training Hour Deduction from Federal Wage System (FWS) Appointment Hours |
System modifications will be made to exclude the hours reported under Transaction Code (TC) 01, Regular Time, with Transaction Descriptor (TD) 04 from the hourly appointment limitation for Forest Service (FS), AG11, FWS employees. |
1238450 |
Agency-specific DOL |
Delete Department of Labor's (DOL) Stored Accounting Codes |
System modifications will be made to delete DOL's obsolete accounting codes stored on IRIS Screen 103, Salary YTD Data. |
1243452 |
Agency-specific GAO |
Stop Generating Biweekly Payroll Files for U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) |
System modifications will be made to cease generating the biweekly payroll and personnel transmission files for GAO. |
1253336 |
Community-wide |
Insight Missing Administrative Billings and Collections System (ABCO) Elements Issue |
System modifications will be made to add the following elements to Insight updated through a daily data refresh file:
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1269131* |
Agency-specific CFPB |
Add Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to Daily Leave File |
System modifications will be made to add CFPB to Treasury's current Daily Leave Balance File. |
1294862* |
Agency-specific OCC OTS |
Remove Negative Adjustment from Payroll Contribution and Loan Files and Move to a Separate File |
System modifications will be made to create two separate Schwab files each pay period for OCC and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) 401K payroll contribution and loan data. One file will contain only positive transactions, and the other will contain net negative transactions. |
1299111 |
Agency-specific DHS |
Insight Department of Homeland Security (DHS) FOCUS Conversion |
System modifications will be made to convert DHS FOCUS elements to Insight. |
1300199* |
Agency-specific FS |
Temporary Limited Employment: Appointment Hours Double Deduction |
System modifications will be made to discontinue deducting the hours from the hourly appointment limitations when TC 31, Night Diff Sunday Double Time, and TC 66, Other Time, are used simultaneously for FS, Agency 11, FWS employees for holiday pay. The only deducted hours will be from TC 66 and not from TC 31. |
1302039* |
Agency-specific CBP |
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) New Substitution Transaction Codes |
System modifications will be made to add TC 17, Prefix 87, Irregular Overtime - Substitute for Debt. This TC will be used to offset for Within Tour Overtime Not Worked in the same pay period, or to reduce an existing Obligated Debt Balance. |
1308568 |
Community-wide |
Management Accounting Structure Code (MASC) Development and Production Insight Data |
System modifications will be made in Insight to load additional MASC tables and remove those tables that are no longer required. |
1310560* |
Community-wide |
Add Edit to Place Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) in Correct Revised Annuity Employee (RAE) /Further Revised Annuity Employee (FRAE) Category |
System modifications will be made to the Web-based Entry, Processing, Inquiry, and Correction System (EPIC Web) to display a warning message box with the following information: . Agencies will be required to confirm the retirement plan selection by selecting the OK button. |
1321427 |
Community-wide |
State Formatting of Wage and Tax Statement, W-2 file 2016 |
System modifications will be made to modify the W-2 System, WTWO, record format to allow States to submit W-2 data. This will allow States to use their unique layout using records RA, RE, RW, RF, and RS. |
1331754 |
Agency-specific USPTO |
FOCUS Reports for Conversion to Insight for Agency 56 |
System modifications will be made to convert FOCUS report data for United States Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO), Agency 56, into Insight. |
1398948* |
Agency-specific FDIC |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Savings Plan Program Modifications |
System modifications will be made to begin a 1 percent automatic Agency contribution for Plan codes 13 and 92 (based on adjusted basic pay for all eligible employees regardless of their participation in the FDIC Savings Plan). The ineligible employees who are excluded from participation in the 401K and/or Roth are intermittent employees (Work Schedule = I and Employees in POI 4039). Other eligible employees are former FDIC employees, CFPB - Agency FT, Department Code FR, POI 1636. |
1405812 |
Community-wide |
FOCUS Elements to be Added to Payroll Accounting System (PACS) Tax in Insight |
System modifications will be made to remove the City and County Tax and State Tax Biweekly folders from the Workforce Profile subject area and move them to the PACS Tax subject area within Insight. |
1422528 |
Community-wide |
ALLTAX Changes Various State/City/County Taxes |
System modifications will be made to implement changes to the tax formulas for various State/city/county taxing entities as shown below. California - CA170018 California State Income Tax Withholding |
1431359 |
Agency-specific OCC |
Allow the Entry of Amount for OCC 401(K) Non-Federal Loans |
System modifications will be made to EPIC Web to retain the entered dollar amount in the Allotment Amount Per Pay Period' field when a Delete transaction is entered for Agency AJ. |