Payroll Settings
The following settings are held in the payroll settings within Scheme Setup
Payroll Settings
Description
Start Date
Input the date you want to commence running payroll runs from.
Any member payment requests and arrears calculations will only calculate from this date.
Cutoff Anniversary
Input the date of the month you want to use as the cut off date for adding new pensioners to the payroll process.
Use Payment Anniversary
Tick true if the payment date is different to the effective date of the Pension Payment series.
For example, if Pension Payment series has an effective date of 1st of the month, and payment date is 6th of the month, set to true and update payment anniversary accordingly (please refer to Final date adjustment section also).
Payment Anniversary
(only appears if Use Payment Anniversary is set to true)
Input the anniversary date if different from effective date of Pension Payment series.
Use Payment Anniversary (PAYE Lump Sums Only)
Tick true is the payment date for PAYE Lump Sums are different to the payment date of Pension Payments.
Payment Anniversary
Input the anniversary date if payment date for PAYE Lump Sums are different from effective date of Pension Payment series.
Pension Payments in Arrears
Mantle default is in advance. Tick true if pension payments are paid in arrears.
Arrears Date After Last Payment Date
If ticked true, Mantle will not create historic arrears payments in the event of a change in payroll amounts.
Arrears Date
Input the date you want any arrears to calculate from. If left blank, Start Date will be default value.
Final adjustment date
An alternative method of changing payment date if it is different from effective date of Pension Payment series.
Input the number of days adjustment from effective date of Pension Payment series.
Example 1
Pensions paid on last working day for next month in advance.
Set Pension Payment series anniversary date – 1st of the month
Set Final adjustment date to -1
Example 2
Pensions paid on 6th of the month for that month.
Set Pension Payment series anniversary date – 1st of the month
Set Final adjustment date to 5.
Accounting Anniversary Date
If specified payroll payments will be accounted for on the next anniversary date if paid in advance or previous anniversary date if paid in arrears.
Use preceding bank date
Payroll actual payment dates will be adjusted to avoid weeks and bank holidays. Default is the following working date, tick this to use the preceding working day.
Use payee details
Tick true if you want to validate payee details are part of the payroll run.
Separate once off payments
Tick true if you only want pension payments to be processed as part of a payroll run.
Keep unticked if you want once off member payments (i.e. transfer values, PCLS, LSDB payments) to be processed as part of a payroll run.