UK Public sector : Teachers Pension Patch and Functional Setup

Question

Hi
I have a query regarding the functional setup for the above. (I am assuming / expecting answer from those who have done this setup already and they know/gone thorugh the patch readme file )
I am trying to use the code provided in the patch readme file to findout correct tier for pension contribution..In order to do that I need the Annual FTE Salary inside fast formula.
The patch readme says ,
Once the Formula has retrieved the pension contribution Rate, it needs to be
applied to the actual earnings in the period.
l_tps_emp_contr_sal = FULL_TIME_ANNUAL_SALARY_TPS_ASG_TRANSFER_PTD
However I am getting zero value for FULL_TIME_ANNUAL_SALARY_TPS_ASG_TRANSFER_PTD.
i.e. l_tps_emp_contr_sal is zero which is being passed to
l_EE_Contribution_Percent = to_number(GET_TABLE_VALUE
('PQP_TPA_PENSIONABLE_PAY_RANGE',
                                   'Employee Contribution Rate',
                                   to_char(l_tps_emp_contr_sal)))
and nothing is coming up.....
How do I get the correct value of FULL_TIME_ANNUAL_SALARY_TPS_ASG_TRANSFER_PTD ?
The readme says following
FTE Salary/Amount
The Annual salary is the Gross Full Time Equivalent salary based on which the
band should be decided. There can be multiple elements per assignment that
could be populating this value and each element may have different
configurations for example:
a. Element may have annual value from which a period value is calculated
b. Period value to be paid
The above this can be further classified based on
a. usage of working pattern or working hours
b. Full time salary
c. Part time salary.
a. One time payment on which Annualisation may not be applied but FTE should
be applied.
b. One time payment on which Annualisation may be applied but FTE should
not be applied.
c. Annual Value on which FTE should be applied.
d. Annual Value on which FTE should not be applied
There are many more variants to the scenarios described above.
To achieve the calculation of the Gross Annual Full Time Equivalent salary
for all possible scenarios the seeded element FTE Annualised Pay should be
used by the customer.
In order for the Pension contribution rate to be determined, the FTE annual
salary effective at the period in question, must be available.
It is presumed that the FTE value will be available for the current elements
that customer uses for paying the teachers as it would be needed to determine
the actual payment value for the period.
This value will be fed to the new seeded element (FTE Annualised Pay) by the
individual element formula.
Suggested changes for determining Annual Full Time value:
Suggested changes in elements formula for determining Annual Full Time value:
The following statements should be added to the existing earnings element
formula. These are suggested changes to the existing formulae to derive the
Annual FTE salary.
Case 1: If the Element Formula has access to Annual FTE Value.
return_Annual_inf = ANNUAL_VALUE
/*Assign Annual FTE Value for this element to variable return_Annual_inf*/
Case 2: If the Element formula has access to only to Period value and
Annual FTE Value is not stored anywhere.
return_Annual_inf = (PERIOD_VALUE * PAY_STATUTORY_ANNUAL_PERIODS)
/* Assign Period Full time Value for this element multiplied by standard
DBI for annual periods to local variable return_Annual_inf */
Case 3: If the Element formula has access to only to Annual Part time value
and Annual FTE Value is not stored anywhere.
return_Annual_inf = ANNUAL_VALUE / ASG_FTE_VALUE
/* Assign Period Full time Value for this element multiplied by standard
DBI for annual periods to local variable return_Annual_inf */
Case 4: If the Element formula has access to only to Period Part time value
and Annual FTE Value is not stored anywhere.
return_Annual_inf=(PERIOD_VALUE*PAY_STATUTORY_ANNUAL_PERIODS)/ASG_FTE_VALUE
/* Assign Period Full time Value for this element multiplied by standard
DBI for annual periods then divided by standard DBI for FTE to local
variable return_Annual_inf */
Note:
The new local variable return_annual_inf should be returned from formula to
the new seeded information element FTE Annualized Pay.

Answer 1

Hi
I recently did an evaluation of this patch, and I did get it to work; however, in order to do so I needed to amend some other formulas for e.g. calculation of salary, so that the annualised FTE figure was returned from the formula. This was then referenced in the formula result rules for the annual salary element, to feed that new result to the seeded element provided in the patch ('FTE Annualised Pay'). That then fed the balance.
It's a major headache as you will have to similarly amend all formulas/result rules pertaining to elements that could form part of the reckonable pay for this calculation.
Where I am, we won't be using it as we had to come up with our own solution to stand any chance of being 'legal' in time for April.
Hope this is of use
Clive