Record an Employee’s Additional Voluntary Contribution

For employees who choose to contribute additional voluntary deductions, add the corresponding card component on their Benefits and Pension Card.

For example, if the employee has an EPA, add that component.

Note: Although some types of additional voluntary contribution do not apply to all schemes, a member may be permitted under certain circumstances to continue to contribute to an existing contract, even though they have transferred to another scheme. There is no validation based on the parent scheme defined for the addition contribution and the scheme into which the employee is enrolled.

If an Additional Voluntary Contribution type is EPA or EEPA, this additional information is available on the calculation card using the Effective Pension Age Reporting Details component detail.

EPA and EEPA Additional Data Capture

FIELDS	DESCRIPTION
EPA Type	Select either EPA or EEPA.
Suspension Code	Select from these values: EPA suspended - assumed pay EEPA 60 only suspended - assumed pay EEPA fully suspended - assumed pay EEPA suspended – ineligible This results in the EPA or EEPA contribution being suspended. Note: If the employee is on an assumed pensionable pay absence and you do not suspend contributions, the calculation complies with EPN697: Added Pension, EPA and EEPA contributions on family leave absences are based on actual pensionable pay. For all other assumed pay absences, Added Pension, EPA and EEPA contributions are based on assumed pensionable pay.
Restart Indicator	EPA/EEPA contributions are automatically restarted for an employee whose previous pensionable service ended but who has now returned to pensionable service (as a rehire) within the permitted five-year period.
Restart Date	Date of automatic restart of EPA or EEPA contributions for an employee who has returned to pensionable service.
Cabinet Office approval to restart EEPA	Cabinet Office approval indicator for the restart of an EEPA.

Calculation Value Override Used for Additional Voluntary Contributions

CALCULATION VALUE	ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTION TYPE	USAGE
Partial Deduction Allowed	All	Specify whether partial deduction is allowed or not for this employee.
Payee	All	Not used for MyCSP reporting, but you can enter a third-party payee to make a payment using Oracle Cloud Payroll.
Additional Pension Employee Contribution	All	Enter a percent or flat amount as per element template setup.
Additional Pension Employer Contribution	All	Enter a percent or flat amount as per element template setup (if requested).
Reference Number	All	Allows you to record a reference number that may be provided by the third-party pension provider. Note: It is different to the Pension Payroll ID used to report the member’s assignment to MyCSP.