The costs associated with benefit plan options can be mapped to specific payroll codes. Payroll mappings determine the payroll earnings and deductions to which benefits plan option rates and imputed income are posted. Ensure that the appropriate earnings and deductions exist for use with benefits, and that they are configured with the appropriate details in Payroll Setup > Earnings and Deductions.
When you map benefits amounts to payroll, they don’t affect any employee-level payroll sourced earnings or deductions that were previously configured. For example, if employees are already associated with a payroll deduction that represents their cost for benefits handled outside of Dayforce, Dayforce doesn't overwrite these deductions when Dayforce Benefits is implemented. Instead, new benefit sourced payroll elections will be generated, and this can result in duplicate payroll elections being recorded if the payroll sourced elections aren't end dated. However, if you add benefits elections using the Benefits Import, existing payroll sourced elections will be end dated automatically, so manual end dating isn’t required.
When reviewing earnings and deduction definitions, it's also important to confirm if any earning or deduction definitions are using the Exclude Scheduled Amount for 27/53 Pay Date field, and if so, whether benefits calculations should respect or ignore this setting. For information about controlling how Benefits features interact with this field, see Enable the use of the 'Exclude scheduled amount for 27/53 pay date' parameter for benefit elections.
For more information on earning definitions, see Earnings and the Earnings Tab.
For more information on deduction definitions, see Deductions and the Deductions Tab.