Release 5.4 [Revision 5.400] eLearning

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Miscellaneous updates made since last release, including the correction of minor errors, enhancing readability, etc.

CC885

The following changes have been made to cater for medical subsidies and annuity employer medical aid contributions:

-  Addition of an Annuity Payment Type of MED AID ER CON which will be treated as a deduction but not deducted from the pension amount.

-  Inclusion of the Payment Type of MED AID ER CON on the Third Party Payment Schedule.

-  Inclusion of the Payment type of MED AID ER CON in the Employer Subsidy report.

CC886

The following functionality has been added in respect Contribution Allocation and Member Switching:

-  Non-unitised portfolios are included on the rebalancing page

-  All funds in rebalancing are included irrespective of the Investment Choice at an Income Type Level option

-  Income Type level switches are included on the switch history

-  Switches may be made by amount or by percentage

CC891

The addition of an EFT Report under Bank.  This provides a report for each EFT file created, detailing all transactions / payments included in the EFT file. 

CC897

On the Salary Report that is extracted on Scheme Reports > Financial > Data Load Reports, a column for Date Created has been added to enable the tracking of changes by the date received.

CC898

A new Scheme Report called FP Report has been added under the Payroll reports.  This report displays the flexible retirals that have FP records.  This has been added because the existing Flexible Retirement report displays the flexible retirals that do not have FP records (only applicable to ABSA schemes).

CC899

Changes for the limitation of the projection of contracting out rebates to 06/04/2012, as this is the date from which DC contracting out ceases (only applicable to ABSA schemes).

CC902

Two new Annuity reports have been added under Scheme Reports to provide an extract of recent retirements and deaths for inclusion in the pensioner magazine called Connections (only applicable to ABSA schemes).

CC904

Functionality has been added requiring Final Bonus Rates to be authorised.  If a rate is not authorised, it will not be included for processing in Bonus Run.

CC905

For the addresses extracts for members under Scheme Reports, the functionality has been changed so that where a Main Scheme is selected, data for the Sub-schemes will also be extracted.

CC907

The Unlimited Salary Types report in the Member Salary list selection under Scheme Reports for Member now has functionality allowing the filtering of the report by Membership Status, Salary Type and reporting period.

CC909

The addition of functionality to create the reversal of the member disinvestment transactions for a reinstated benefit payment with a transaction date equal to the transaction date of the original disinvestment transactions.

CC910

Updates made to the extract of member data from Vision for the purpose of updating the UK Member Lookup utility.

CC911

Changes made to the Unit Prices screens under the Investment Process screens:

-  Unit Price authorization details are now displayed on the JU1BN Investment Medium Unit Prices screen and the Unit Prices Report.

-  A deletion button has been added on the JU1BN Investment Medium Unit Prices screen allowing the deletion of authorized unit prices.

-  The Unit Price Report is now also accessible from the Investment Process screen.

CC912

The system now validates whether, when a new Investment Medium is linked to a sub-umbrella scheme, the Investment Medium is linked to the Main Umbrella Scheme.  If not, an error message is displayed.

CC913

The requirements for the use of e-mail within IN.pensions for registration, password changes, alerts, warnings, errors and reports. 

CC914

Document setting out how the Cancellation Process makes use of the Bulk Payment Association table (Bulk Purpose of type BEN CANCELATION) to define the opposite/reversal accounting entries.

CC915

The Notes File Layout has been amended to include the following fields:

   Period End date

   Date Signed Off

   Note Type

CC916

The addition of Date of Birth and First Name to the search criteria on the Members of Scheme Search. 

The addition of the Company Reference Number and ID Number fields as columns on the JU3AO List of Members for a Scheme/Pay Centre screen.

The addition of Person Details as a menu option on the JU3AO List of Members for a Scheme/Pay Centre

CC917

The addition of Take-on Layouts under the Take-on Layout section for:

   Employer

   Pay Centre

   Broker

CC918

A new Scheme Report has been added to extract salary sacrifice contributions made for a specified period.

CC919

A new Scheme Report has been added to extract active member, deferred member and pensioner data across all schemes as at a specified date (only applicable to ABSA schemes).

CC920

A field has been added to the bank reconciliation screen to indicate that the bank reconciliation has been finalised.

CC922

Changes to the default value for the Payment Method on the JU4DD Payment Detail Maintain screen.

CC923

The addition of a BLMODE report under Payroll (only applicable to ABSA schemes).

CC924

Change from a drop-down box to an ellipse button (flow) for Currency Fields to allow for selection.

CC925

The addition of the Payroll Report "Contribution / Expense Billing Report" to compare contributions received via Interface 4 with expected contributions received via Interface 2 (only applicable to ABSA schemes).

CC926

The addition of controls to prevent member transfers into blacklisted schemes.

CC927

New functionality added for UK schemes to provide an extract of the information to be included in benefit statements.  The data to be extracted is defined in a flexible benefit statement template and is set up as a table in which the data to be extracted for each column is defined by the selection of a field tag.

CC928

Changes to the  BASIC.ALTKEY field in the SAP Interface 3 File Layout: New Pensioners and Changes to Pensioner Records

CC929

Changes relating to the requirement to input pension values calculated by the Actuary and perform the Life Time Allowance (LTA) check once these values have been captured (only applicable to ABSA schemes).

CC931

The Benefit Payment Update Type for Outstanding Contributions cannot be closed until the Expected Income Process is complete.  An error message will be displayed when an attempt is made to close the Update Type.

CC932

Provision for a benefit payment to be processed that does not result in the exit from the fund of the member.  A sufficient amount/number of units of the member’s investment needs to be able to be realized to cover the non-member spouse’s portion and the tax thereon plus tax on the tax. This results in changes to the JU4AS Tax Directive screens.

CC933

Functionality for SAP schemes for the automation of salary sacrifice in order to automatically change members' membership groups allocations in cases where they have opted out of or have opted for salary sacrifice contributions (only applicable to ABSA schemes).

CC934

The use of the sell unit price to calculate the number of units purchased when a benefit payment is re-instated, so that the member is put into the same position that they would have been if no benefit payment had been processed.

CC935

The addition of the new MI Dashboard extract under the MI Weekly Reports, to display data extracted for Financial Statements, Valuations, Reserve Bank reporting and the termination of the administration of a scheme (only applicable to ABSA schemes).

CC937

Changes made to the Member>Members of an Employer functionality, to ensure that users are only able to view member details if they are a contact person on that corporate client.

CC939

Documentation of the IN.pensions interface with Multidata (only applicable to Sanlam).

CC940

The addition of a new menu item called Forms on the Member Website (both General and UK), and the Employer Website to allow Administration Users to upload ABSA forms for their Clients to retrieve and complete.

CC942

Formscape for Outbound correspondence within the integrated Vision platform.  Required for additional system tags for the extract of information to be included in Formscape letters (only applicable to ABSA Schemes).

CC943

Additional warning message added for when a user captures a new unit price and it is the same price as the day before.

CC944

The addition of validation checks for linking a sub scheme to a main scheme.

CC945

The addition of an amount field to the beneficiaries page for death claims.

CC947

The provision of controls for blacklisted schemes to prevent transfers into blacklisted schemes.  A facility is provided to load these schemes in bulk.

CC950

A new Contributions Received with No Splits Report has been added to make it easier to identify Incomes Types for which an investment split has not been captured.  This report lists those Incomes Types included in a payroll cycle for which the contribution is not zero and for which there is no investment split. 

CC951

The addition of a Salary field to the Member Details screen for Debit Order Funds, so as to allow for an amount to be calculated as a percentage of salary based on the salary captured.

CC952

The Audit - Member Data Report has been moved from the Reports Menu to the Scheme Reports Menu to ensure that Users are no longer able to view member’s data without the necessary security access.  The User’s ability to view this Report under Scheme Reports will be regulated by their security access to Schemes, since the Report must now be selected by scheme.

CC953

A new Download Exports report has been added for all existing reports where the size of the report is greater than a preset maximum.  These reports will automatically be exported to a CSV File which can be accessed from the Download Exports report. 

CC954

The addition of the Gender field to the Beneficiary screen. 

CC956

The addition of a new the new ISDEFBEN Classification for the question “Does the member have a deferred benefit in any other Scheme in the UK?”  in the Benefit Quote process (only applicable to ABSA Schemes).

CC957

The addition of functionality to perform a Scheme Search by Name or Scheme Code on the JU1BK Scheme List screen. 

CC958

When Scheduling a Scheme for a Batch Run, an error message has been added to ensure that the From and To dates defined for the Valuation Batch Group, do not exceed 1 year. 

CC959

A new Member Movement report under Scheme Reports to summarize the member movements for the UK schemes for a defined period (only applicable to ABSA Schemes).

CC960

For Investment Reconciliation, an option has been added to sum the individual transactions with the same transaction date, and display the total in the Business Transaction Details column of the JU2DT Investment Reconciliation screen. This simplifies the manual reconciliation of individual transactions to the single amount on the Asset Manager’s Investment Statement.

CC961

The addition of the functionality for a Contributions Received with no Splits report under Scheme Reports i.e. for selection by Scheme Code.

CC962

When a Forex Deal Number is captured on the JU2BK Accounting Journal Details or the JU4AO Payment Allocation screen, the system validates that the Forex Deal Number and the Bank details are already on the System.  Functionality has been changed to display an error message instead of a confirmation message and instead of the system adding these details, it now requires that the user first create the Forex Deal Number and Exchange Rate on the JU2ER Exchange Rate Deals List screen.

CC963

When a Bank account is loaded for a member, the value for the Account Type, Account Number, Branch Code and Bank Account Status fields will automatically be displayed on the GUI Payment Allocation screen by the System.  The User validation defined under Members of a Scheme will also be applied under Payment Allocation.  The Bank Account Status field has been added to the GUI Payment Allocation screen. 

CC964

New functionality added in order to process the following tax documents via SAR’s eFiling, SAR’s e@asyFILE and SAR’s Income Tax System (ITS):

-  Tax Directive requests (Form A&D, Form B, Form C) 

-  Tax Directives

-  Tax Certificates (IRP5,s)

-  Certificate of income from investments, property, rights and royalties  (IT3(a))

-  Employer Reconciliation Declaration (EMP501)

CC965

The addition of a field on the Corporate Client record to indicate on the system if a client has opted in or opted out for marketing information to be forwarded to them.

The addition of a report under the Reports website to extract all Corporate Clients, all Corporate Clients linked to an Admin Team or all Corporate Clients linked to a scheme.

CC966

The addition of a new Scheme Notes Extract report under General Scheme Reports to extract and display all the notes associated to a scheme.

CC967

Additional requirements to the Actuarial Valuation Extract.  Five additional columns have been added to the Report and the derivation of the Source of the values has been changed for some fields.

CC968

The addition of a facility for Clients to upload a file of salary sacrifice data.

CC969

Functionality has been added to enable the upload and viewing of member documents for Members, Pay Centres and for accounting manual Initiates.

Functionality has been added to allow for an authorized EFT payment to be replaced by another EFT.

CC970

A new Member Switches Completed report has been added as a Scheme Report for Member, to include the following additional information in addition to what is currently displayed on the Member Switches report:

-  Units after the switch in has unitized

-  Sell prices

-  Buy prices

CC971

The addition of field tags required for the information to be included in Benefit Statements.

CC972

Changes to enable benefit statements to be set up with a flexible document template.  The facility to select if a Flexible Format must be used to create benefit statements for a scheme, is provided when the benefit statement batch job is scheduled.

CC973

A new Unclaimed Benefits Member’s Scheme Report to identify possible unclaimed benefits and to provide input into the payment of tax every 6 months to the Receiver of Revenue.

CC974

Functionality enabling new entrant certificates to be set up with a flexible document template.

CC975

Additional functionality for Section 13A Interest on Late Contributions, to calculate interest on contributions that were received after the period prescribed by legislation.

CC976

Functionality to allow debit order umbrella funds the option to exclude pay centres when creating a batch schedule for benefit statements. 

CC977

Changes to the service type defined for Entry Class in the LDC Standard Transaction Record (only applicable to ABSA Schemes).

CC978

The addition of a Date Time Created column on the Interface 2 File Extract so that when the file is exported, the user will be able to sort according to date and time (only applicable to ABSA Schemes).

CC979

A new Contribution Validation Report and a Contribution Validation By Type Report have been created under Payroll Reports to compare and report on the difference between stored contribution values and calculated contribution values.

CC980

The addition of new Tags for use in the definition of the Annuity Payslip.

CC982

Additional functionality added to process the Admin Fees payable to Alexander Forbes, ABSA and for Namibia Business (only applicable to Sanlam).

CC983

Change to allow the BIB File batch run to be automated and run daily at 10h00,13h00 and 16h00 (only applicable to ABSA).

CC984

A Benefit Package Rule has been configured for the Abolition of Office Benefit Event to ensure that the Additional FAS benefit is governed by the FAS benefit that the member would have received if he/she were there until normal retirement date.

CC985

The Forms Upload now caters for MS Word, PDF, HTML and txt formats.

CC986

Functionality to provide a facility to do a bulk upload of changes in members’ status to unclaimed.

CC987

Functionality to load members Expression of Wish data which must be extracted in the Benefit Statement files.

CC988

The addition of the Benefit Request Number to the JU3MD Membership Service Details List screen in order to be able to link the correct instance of the member values data to the actual final claim.

CC990

Changes to the system to allow for the capture of a Payment Reference that will appear on the recipient’s bank statement when payments are made via EFT.

CC991

Include a pivot selection for the Member Contribution report for the Debit Orders Product to display the member contribution details per Income Type and per Portfolio.

Include the following columns on the Member Investment Values report.

-  Contribution Membership Group Code

-  Benefit Membership Group Code

-  Monthly Contribution

-  Additional Contribution

Include a column for Switches in Process on the Member Investment Values report.

Provide the following additional report selection criteria for the Member Investment Values report:

-  Summary per Investment Report

-  Summary per Income Type and per Portfolio

CC992

A new Collection Instruction Report has been added under the Reports website to display the details of Debit Order collection instructions manually end-dated.

CC993

New functionality has been added for Automated Claims.  This enables the automation of the processing of benefit payments for which the claim forms have been captured. 

CC994

Validation added to ensure that when a new Corporate Client is created, there is no existing Corporate Client with the same Code and Type.

CC997

System changes to prevent members from switching into or selecting for future contributions portfolios that have been closed, but to still enabling them to switch out of these portfolios.

-  A Fixed Term Investment indicator has been added on the Investment Medium

-  A Closed From Date field has been added on the Portfolio

-  The selection of the Portfolio for switching into or from new investment splits from the Closed From Date has been disabled

-  The selection of a Portfolio for which the Fixed Term Investment indicator is Yes on the associated Investment Medium for the allocation of future contributions if the member does not already have money invested in the Portfolio or has a switch into the Portfolio in process, has been disabled.

CC998

System changes to disable the ability for Living Annuitants to change their investment allocations.

-  The Life Cycle option has been disabled

-  The menu option has been changed from Allocation of Future Contributions to Allocation of Future Disinvestments.

-  Validation for the balance in the portfolio when an investment allocation is changed, with an error message.

-  Validation for when 100% is switched out of a Portfolio that is included in the living annuitant’s investment allocation, with an error message.

CC1000

The on the extract JU4AD_EXVAL, the exported CSV Report for Exit Value now includes the benefit request number.

CC1001

Functionality to produce an extract for contributions to Retirement Annuity and Income Protection Policies in terms of Section 69 0f the Income Tax Act, has been added.

CC1002

A new upload program has been added that will enable Clients to bulk upload changes for annuitant payment details records.

CC1003

A new Web Site for Asset Managers has been added to provide the facility for Asset Management staff to capture unit prices for specific investment mediums or upload a file of unit prices. 

A new Authorise Asset Manager Unit Prices screen has been added to the Investments site to allow the Administrator to bulk authorize unit prices captured or uploaded from the Asset Managers Web Site.

CC1004

Changes have been made to the System to display the member’s period of temporary absence on the valuation report and also on the benefit statement extract report in order to explain the effect on the benefit calculation.

CC1005

New functionality has been added under Accounting in order to include an authorization step in the bulk journal load process.

CC1006

Functionality to extract fees paid has been added, using a new SAP Financial Interface extract, to create a file for loading into SAPS (only applicable to ABSA).

CC1007

The addition of Abolition of Office as a Type of Annuity on the JU4DC Payment Details screen.

CC1009

Functionality to process the Department of Home Affairs file, upload the results to the System and generate extracts.

CC1011

The addition of a new facility that allows for a payroll file to be defined in excel (xlsx) format and then converted to text with user defined masks in order to upload it.

CC1012

Functionality to display the EFT reference number on the on the Scheme’s bank statement.

CC1013

If the Fixed Date field on the BADI NRA Definition Maintain screen has been set, then:

-  The following reports will always display the Fixed Date:

Trustee Report

Benefit Statements

Valuation

-  In the Claims and Projections processes, this fixed date can be overwritten, with a warning message being displayed.

CC1014

Functionality for Sub scheme and Main scheme investment advices, to produce investment and disinvestment advices at a main scheme level for the sub umbrella schemes invested in the same investment medium.

CC1016

The addition of a Timestamp field to the CJU3CG Membership Status Details List screen so that the order of the statuses are consistent when the Start Date is the same.

CC1017

Functionality to display a warning message to warn the user to check whether any switches are in progress before authorising a distribution.

CC1018

Additional functionality to facilitate the bulk updating of membership and contribution details for existing members. 

CC1019

The following changes have been made to the Walker File Interface (only applicable to Sanlam):

-  For transactions with a Transaction Date less than the current month and greater than the 6th day of  the current month, the Content Record in the Walker file will be created with the Book Month Effective Date equal to the first day of the current month.

-  The creation of an additional file for audit purposes.

-  The automatic generation of the Walker Interface file and transfer to the server where it is currently being transferred to manually.

CC1020

Functionality to split the annuity year to date figures for the medical aid deductions and the medical aid employer contributions. Also included is the addition of other Document Tags that enable more flexibility in configuring the pensioner statements for different schemes.

CC1021

Functionality to allow multiple payments to be combined into the same bank account.

CC1022

Additional columns added to the Employer Address Extract.

CC1023

Functionality has been added to enable the end-dating and addition of a new bank account on the Beneficiary Fund Member page.

CC1024

Functionality to enable more than one valuation report for the same Scheme in the same batch schedule but to limit the report to 12 months.

Functionality to ensure that if a batch job has been scheduled for a main umbrella scheme and jobs are already scheduled or currently running, a warning message is displayed that these jobs must first be completed, cleared or set to E before a main umbrella scheme can be scheduled.

CC1025

Functionality to exclude members who do not have addresses, when the PDF Pensioner Statements are extracted.

The creation of an Adhoc Payday Membership Group on all schemes for use in a pre-run of only 1 member of a scheme.

CC1026

Functionality has been added for the automatic generation of an e-mail to the Administrator when a member switches or changes allocation or both on the Member Website.

CC1027

The addition of a scheme report for the annuity increase history for the life of the annuity.

The suspended members scheme report has been changed to produce one report for all schemes rather than a report per scheme.

CC1028

The addition of the Batch and System Management menu items to the top bar for the Debit Order Process selection in order to enhance the scheduling and running of batch jobs for Debit Order schemes.

CC1029

Functionality has been added to allow income and expense rules held at the Umbrella level to be copied automatically to all sub-schemes, so that just a single rule change is needed to be effected for the Umbrella scheme and all its sub-schemes.