B05/1990 CURRENCY ADJUSTMENTS TO BRITISH DISABILITY PENSIONS PAID IN AUSTRALIA

DATE OF ISSUE:  06 February 1990

CURRENCY ADJUSTMENTS TO BRITISH DISABILITY PENSIONS PAID IN AUSTRALIA

Advice has been received from the British Department of Social Security (BDSS) to the effect that the exchange rate to be used for payment of the British component of disability pensions in Australia has been reviewed.

2.The new rate is to be put into effect on payday 8 March 1990.  The exchange rate will vary from $A2.09 to $A2.03 to one Pound Sterling (British pension rates charts are at Attachment C).  The variation applies to the Hong Kong cases and to the EATS and Composite cases.

3.There will be no cases processed automatically.  All cases will be listed for manual examination.

SERVICE PENSION CASES

4.A report will be produced of Service Pension cases with British Pension in payment to enable update of the DP amount for service pension assessment purposes.

5.Action schedules of cases requiring manual examination and variation by examiners will be produced, on 17 February 1990, in groups which will consist of the following:

Group Content — Group Reference

.Composite Cases — 100

(with or without SP)

.EATS Cases — 200

(with or without SP)

.Other overseas pensions — 300

(which may be affected).

Groups 300 are to be processed via the PMF update transactions.  Groups 100 and 200 are to be processed via PIPS.

PUNCHING OF TRANSACTIONS FROM "ACTION" SCHEDULES EATS AND COMPOSITE CASES

6.Pay Period Codes

The pay period, namely 18, for the effective date (8 March 1990) should be entered.  The day within the pay period field may be left blank.

Keyfast Batch Description

The manual transactions for EATS and Composite cases should be punched using Keyfast batch description $ PENSIO by cutoff for payday 8 March 1990.

CONTROL CARDS AND COMPUTER RUNS

7.Control card formats for computer runs are at Attachment B.  The computer processing timetable is at Attachment A.  Runs according to this timetable will be scheduled by Central Office.  Would you PLEASE have the parameter cards checked by an officer of your Branch to ensure that they are correct before processing commences.  Any changes should be reported to Ric Moore on (062) 825494 so that the appropriate amendments can be made.

CASES WITH SERVICE PENSION AND OR AN AUSTRALIAN DP COMPONENT TO BE PROCESSED VIA PIPS  (Group 100, 200)

8.For all cases involving EATS, Composite or service pension, whether automatic or manual method of assessment, the new rate of British pension must be updated on the Client Data Base (CDB) via PIPS.  Due to the change in the British rate, these cases will be "MS" and determined by the delegate, or through manual authority on PIPS only.

9.Where adjustments of payment occur, as in COMPOSITE and EATS cases, the examiner processes the case as follows:

NOTE:The British rates are EXAMPLES only:

(a)Access the facility "Classify Pension" (BC.CP).  Create an action record under Manual Authority action.

(b)Access the assessment control (PP.AC).  Copy current assessment details by pressing the ENTER button once.  (Effective date can be entered at this stage but is required only where there is a service pension component.)

(c)Access the disability pension (DP) screen and update the new disability pension details.  This is illustrated by:

(1)The following example shows what a similar case will look like when the examiner accesses the DP screen:

DISABILITY PENSION (DP)

ADJUSTMENT — PENSION

DP RATE — AMOUNT                            AMOUNT

ACTION   REL  TYPE   ENT  RECIPIENT    (P/F)    REASON   (P/F)

VET — 100 — X — V — 100.00 (EATS)  87.70

VET — 100F — PX — V — 0.00 — 100.00

TOTALS FOR ALL 2 ITEMS ---DISABILITY PENSION 187.70

NOTE 1:The Australian Disability Pension percentage rate (in this example "100%") must be data collected in each case.

NOTE 2:100F = 100% BP RATE FOR AN OFFICER.

(d)The adjustment that has to be made is as follows:

.where, for example, the Australian DP is 100% rate equivalent to $A187.70 and the NEW British rate of 100% for an officer is equivalent to $A200 the screen entries will be:

DISABILITY PENSION (DP)

ADJUSTMENT — PENSION

DP RATE — AMOUNT — AMOUNT

ACTION — REL — TYPE — ENT — RECIPIENT(P/F)REASON(P/F)

C — VET — 100 — X — V — 187.70 EATS — 0000.00

C — VET — 100F — PX — V — 0.00 EATS — 200.00

MORE:  TOTALS FOR ALL 2 ITEMS --- DISABILITY PENSION:200.00

.we have added an Action of "c" (change).

.Because the British rate is more than the Australian rate, we do not pay any Australian pension; therefore the Australian adjustment is the equivalent of the full Australian 100% DP rate of $A187.70 and the entry for the British rate is the NEW RATE OF $A200 for an officer 100% rate.

Enter new details on the action schedule.

(d)Submit (SU) the case to MS for a 50, obtain the con. no. and enter that onto the schedule, obtain the supporting documents (only for a case with an SP component) and forward to the Delegate for determination.

10.It will not be necessary to prepare a D408, or equivalent in these cases; the schedule produced for dual SP/EATS/COMP cases to record the changes to the PMF may be used as an authority provided each record on that schedule is endorsed with the consecutive number automatically produced by the Pension Processing System and is signed by the delegate determining the case, prior to transmission to Pension Payments Section.  All such cases can be identified from the manual schedules listed by the ALO2, ALO3 runs (i.e., group 100, 200) and the new British rates should be deducted from the examiners' entries on those schedules.

NOTE:All entries on these schedules must be in Australian dollars.

ADVICES

11.  Arrangements must be made for an advice for those cases where an advice is considered necessary.

DAVID HOLLAWAY

DIRECTOR

ADP SYSTEMS

ATTACHMENT A

TIMETABLE FOR BRITISH DEVALUATION EFFECTIVE 8 MARCH 1990

STAGE 117 February 1990

RUN — PURPOSE

RSPYAL01 — Listing of cases requiring manual action

RSPYAL02(Z cards in CPP.BRITRVAL.CNTL(AL02RUN1)

RSPYAL03

RSPYAL04 — Composite/benefit in file no or alpha order within composite group order required               for NSW Qld (i.e. use AL run book sort card 5).  Job NPALA23A

OUTPUTS:Listing Journal:  Schedules - use 3 part paper and double spacing

$PPBBSPR — Report of Service Pensioners with British DP only

THE BENEFITS CONTACT OFFICER WILL BE

RIC MOORE(062) 825494 Bh

(062) 823913 Ah