Recording illness benefit on a timesheet
- On the menu bar, click Processing then click Employee Details.
- Next to the Surname box, click browse and click the relevant employee.
- Click the Tax / PRSI / USC tab.
- In the PRSI Code list, make a note of the employee's current PRSI code. Then change it to M.
- Click Save, then click Cancel.
- On the menu bar, click Processing then click Time and Pay.
- Under Entry mode, select Random then click Continue.
- Next to the Employee box, click browse and click the relevant employee.
- Locate the non-taxable illness benefit payment, then enter the amount in the Hrs/Val column.
- Locate the employee's main payment*, then enter the same amount as step 9 in the Hrs/Val column.
* An example of a main payment is salary or basic hourly pay.
- Click Save, then click Cancel.
- Repeat steps 6 to 11 for each pay period that your company gets the illness benefit welfare payments paid by the Department of Social Protection (DSP) but doesn't pay the employee any wages.
NOTE: When the employee returns back to work, you must change the PRSI code within their employee record back to what it was originally. You made a note of this in step 4.