Guidelines for Loading Federal Unemployment Card Components

The Federal Unemployment card component is used to capture information that impacts Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) calculations for employees.

Federal Unemployment Card Component Hierarchy

The Federal Unemployment card component has this shape:

Federal Unemployment card component

The Federal Unemployment card component uses the Federal Unemployment Organization Information flexfield context and data for this is loaded using the Component Detail record type. It has one override, which is supplied using the Calculation Value Definition and Enterable Calculation Value record types.

Refer to Guidelines for Loading Calculation Rules for Tax Reporting and Payroll Statutory Unit Cards topic for the attributes to supply for each of these record types.

Card Component Name

When defining the card component, specify a value of ‘Federal Unemployment’ for the DirCardCompDefName attribute on the Card Component, Component Detail and Calculation Value Definition records.

Component Detail Attributes

In addition to the common attributes for the component details record include the necessary flexfield segment attribute values for the flexfield context: Federal Unemployment Organization Information (HRX_US_ORG_FEDERAL_UNEMPLOYMENT)

You can find the flexfield segment attribute name for this flexfield context using the View Business Objects task.

Federal Unemployment Value Definition

The Federal Unemployment card component uses value definitions to supply override values.

Value Definition Name Functional Description
Federal Unemployment Employer Rate An override of the standard FUTA employer rate at the PSU or TRU level.