Entering payroll time to support the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirements
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Overview

You enter work dates or ACA hours on the 5-2-2 Payroll Record, based on the employee’s pay type.

Enter time for hourly employees

  1. Enter each workday date in the Date column of the 5-2-2 Payroll Record grid row.
  2. Review the ACA Hours fields in the payroll record header after entering the dates.
  3. Confirm the program calculates hours and splits them across months when dates cross months.

You can manually enter hours in the ACA Hours fields in the header of the 5-2-2 Payroll Record.

Enter time for salaried employees

  1. Enter each workday date in the Date column of the 5-2-2 Payroll Record grid row.
  2. Review the ACA Hours fields in the payroll record header after entering the dates.
  3. Confirm the program calculates hours and splits them across months when dates cross months.
  4. Enter hours directly in the ACA Hours fields, if needed.
  5. Click Yes when prompted that you’re overriding the calculated ACA Hours amount.

When you override values, the program doesn’t calculate ACA Hours from Timecard lines.

Enter ACA hours when pay periods cross months

  1. Enter first-month hours in the left ACA Hours field.
  2. Enter second-month hours in the right ACA Hours field.

The combined fields must equal the total hours worked for that pay period.

Set ACA status and reporting

Mark the employee as Full Time, Part Time, Seasonal, or Exempt in the Work Status cell of the 5-2-1 Employees, ACA tab.

The system uses the ACA Hours fields and the employee ACA tab settings to populate the 5-4-3-21 ACA Hours Allocation Report.

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