ESS Current Benefits not showing correct amounts

tewright

This year we changed our healthcare plans to deduct from employees paychecks bimonthly instead of each paycheck. So it deducts 24 times a year instead of 26 (our pay cycle is every 2 weeks). The problem is that the current benefits screen in ESS still showed the rate based off 26 pay cycles instead of 24. I opened a ticket with Lawson and they had us add a rule on BS01. This did have it show the 24 deduction cycle rate however it affected all the benefits (life insurance, etc) and we only want it to affect the healthcare plans. After going back and forth with Lawson they said that wasn't possible. Even if you setup a rule by employee group there isn't a way to create an employee group based off their healthcare plan and even if you could I think it would affect all there benefits under current benefits and not just the healthcare plan. So my questions is has anyone run into this and did they find a fix? The fix HR wants to do is to disable the current benefits bookmark so employees aren't getting incorrect information. Then the employees can just contact HR (or look at their pay stubs). It just seems like a horrible workaround.

plancor

Not sure if this will help, but - we have one benefit plan that is paid twice a month whereas all other plans are paid biweekly. What we needed to do was set up a frequency table for a 24 period year and enter that frequency table on the BN15.1 Deductions tab.