Assign pension contribution details to an employee
Description
Once you've set up your pension deductions in Sage Payroll, you can start deducting contribution details from your employees' pay. These contributions can be a set amount or a percentage of pensionable pay.
You should check your pension link settings before processing pension deductions for your employees.
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Assign pension contributions details
On the menu bar, click Processing then click Employee Details.
Next to the Surname box, click browse and click the relevant employee.
Click the Deductions tab.
Locate the relevant pension deduction, then enter the following information on it's entry line:
Std. E’e Amt
Enter the fixed amount or percentage of pensionable pay that you want the employee to pay each period.
E'r Contrib
Enter the fixed amount or percentage of pensionable pay that your company wants to pay on the employee's behalf each period.
You can't enter an employer contribution for RAC pension types.
Click Save.
Repeat steps 2 to 5 for each employee you want to assign pension contributions for, then click Cancel.
If you entered a pension value as a percentage of pensionable pay in step 4, you must check that all relevant payments are set up as pensionable on the payroll. To do this, complete steps 7 to 11.
Click Company/Payroll then Payments.
Locate and select a payment that's pensionable, then click Edit.
Check the Include in pension calculation check box is selected. If it's not, select this check box now.
Click Save.
Repeat step 8 to 10 for all payments that are pensionable, then click Close.