Adoption Benefit Payment or Offset

Payroll attributes provided for the calculation of adoption benefit payments or offsets. 

Payroll attributes are now provided for the user to set up adoption absences for the calculation of benefit payments and offsets.

Steps to Enable and Configure

Create adoption elements, formula result rules for entitlement results, balance feeds, validation formulas based on delivered formulas, entitlement formula, certificates, absence plan and absence type.

Steps to Enable:
1.    Create an absence element using these details:

  • Primary Classification: Absences
  • Secondary Classification: Adoption

2.    Create benefit offset element using these details:

  • Primary Classification: Information
  • Input Values: Pay Value, Process Date

3.    Create benefit payment element using:

  • Primary Classification: Direct Payment

4.    Create formula result rules for the <Absence Element> Entitlement Result.

  • ADOPTION_BENEFIT_PAYMENT
  • PROCESS_DATE

5.     Modify the formula <Absence Element> Entitlement Result to incorporate logic for occupational payment and benefit payment.

6.    Create calculation factor for the element <Absence Element> Entitlement Result for the value definition Adoption Benefit Standard Weekly Rate.

7.    Create a balance feed benefit offset element for the balance Adoption Benefit Offset.

8.    Create a balance feed benefit payment element for the balance Adoption Benefit Payment.

9.    Create a validation formula based on a delivered seeded formula: IE Adoption Absence Validation and configure warnings for these scenarios:

  • Minimum Duration 
  • Maximum Duration 

10.    Create an entitlement formula based on a documented sample formula for entitlement.

Note: This sets the entitlement limits and generates a certificate whenever the required Certificate is marked as Not Received.
11.    Create a certificate for Certificate Not Received.
12.    Configure ANC_PER_ABS_ENTRIES_DFF to add the fields:

  • Certificate Received
  • Weekly Rate Override

13.    Create an Absence Plan and attach it with the entitlement formula.
14.    Create an Absence Type and attach it with the validation formula and certificate.


For more information on set up and configurations, see https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/human-resources/faass/index.html