DATE OF ISSUE: 16/5/90
EXCHANGE RATE 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 14 June 1990. The exchange rate will vary from $A2.23 to $A2.15 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 26 May 1990, in groups made up 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 25, for the effective date
(14 June 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 14 June 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.
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.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
10.The Advices System will generate an advice in cases where a payment variation is made. Examiners should action cases in the following manner:
Continuation Cases
Unless the total payment varies the PIPS Advices screen should be accessed and production of an automatic advice suppressed. The Advice Indicator on the Action Schedule should be set to "Z".
Variation Cases
Where a variation in total payment results the PIPS Advice screen should be accessed and the Suppress Income/Asset List Indicator set to "Y". This will result in production of a variation advice with no income and asset details. The Advice Indicator on the Action Schedule should be set to "Y".
CONTACT OFFICER
The contact officer for this exercise is:
RIC MOORE Phone — 06 289 6214 (BH)
06 282 3913 (AH).
JIM DALTON
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
PLANNING & MANAGEMENT
ATTACHMENT A
TIMETABLE FOR BRITISH DEVALUATION EFFECTIVE 14 JUNE 1990
STAGE 126 May 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.
THE BENEFITS CONTACT OFFICER WILL BE
RIC MOORE: (06) 289 6214 Bh
(06) 282 3913 Ah