Anyway to get around "Employees could not be linked" on IT0031

Question

Here's the situation we have.  We had an employee that retired mid-year.  Upon retirement we have a new PERNR created that the employee starts receiving his pension under.  Upon creation of this new PERNR, there was no Ref Pers No entered and there was no SSN entered on IT0002.
In order to produce both W-2 and 1099-R for this person, we need these PERNRs to be linked so they can share an SSN.  However, when maintaining infotype 31 on either PERNR and putting in the other PERNR, I'm presented with the following error:
"Employees could not be linked"
Upon expanding the error we're presented with the following:
Employees could not be linked
Message no. HR_CENTRAL_PERSON002
Diagnosis
Several links to other objects already exist for the personnel numbers that you have entered.
System Response
The reference link between the personnel numbers has not been created.
Procedure
Check the employees that you have entered. You can only link employees if they have not already been linked to other objects (such as a user).
Is there any way to get around this so that the SSN can be included on both PERNRs infotype 0002 record so this person can get both their W-2 and their 1099-R?

Answer 1

Hello,
     I am not sure how you have created new pernr. Generally if some employee have multiple pernr then those are linked with central person. Check HRP10001("CP-P") relationship. That will give you all the linked pernr which are assigned to that central person.
For example when we used to run a action to transfer one employee from one country to other country then we need to run transfer action with the existign pernr. Then it will create one new pernr with "CP" as same. So for your case you have to run with the same pernr with the related action, then only it will link you pervious pernr and newly created pernr with same central person.
If you run hiring action then this should not linked to same pernr.
Reagrds,
Mrinmoy