Understanding Retroactive Benefits and Deductions
A retroactive change to employee or benefit-related data has an effective date prior to the last confirmed pay end date of the employee's pay group. Retroactive changes to benefits and deductions might become necessary for a variety of reasons: late paperwork, data-entry errors, modified union contracts, and changes to employment laws, for example.
The Manage Base Benefits business process retroactive benefits and deduction features flag these events internally and create retroactive benefit/deduction requests that you can view by employee.
Triggers for individual events and mass events are defined differently. The system identifies individual events without any user intervention, while mass event processing occurs only by user request.
Note: Retroactive benefits and deductions features are available only if you also use PeopleSoft Payroll for North America. Payroll for North America processes are used to calculate retroactive benefits and deductions and to load retroactive benefit/deduction totals to payroll.