If you process negative gross pay, Sage 50 Payroll Ireland sometimes calculates negative pension values, depending on your software version.
NAERSA doesn't accept negative pension values in pension submissions.
From Sage 50 Payroll v29.2, your software automatically sets the pension contribution to zero if you process negative gross pay.
Once you install v29.2, you don't need to complete any additional steps on pension contributions if you process negative pay in subsequent periods.
Installing v29.2 won’t correct any values for previous periods you've already processed.
Sage 50 Payroll v29.1 and prior can calculate negative auto-enrolment pension values if you process negative gross pay.
If this happens, you need to correct the pension values before you can submit your pension file to NAERSA.