Element Group for Pensions Automatic Enrolment

When you run the Pensions Automatic Enrolment process, you must run it with an element group that does not include the pension deduction elements.

If you run the process several times in the same period, the update process won't remove the pension component as it’s processed in the assessment run. For example, an employee changes from being previously first assessed in this period as an eligible jobholder (with a Pension component) but is now assessed as an entitled worker (now the pension component should be removed).

It is not appropriate to remove a card, card component, or the element where it has been run.

If the pension component has been processed, you will see this error message in the log file:

QPS deduction component processed in the current assessment, the eligible jobholder, and noneligible jobholder can't be processed.

Run the process by excluding the pension deduction component using element set or object group.

To expedite the process, you might wish to exclude other elements that don’t affect assessable earnings from the assessment run.