There was an employee in HCM that had two different person numbers but the same SSN

Summary:

There was an employee in HCM that had two different person numbers but the same Social Security Number.

We would like to merge the previous work relationship (The 9/26/16 – 8/28/17) from the incorrect person number to the correct person number. And eventually remove the record of incorrect person number from HCM.

We are unable to fix it in UI. And we tried to fix it thru HDL but we are getting below error.

“A record for this legislation already exists for this person”
Note: The correct person number is still active in HCM today.

Is there a workaround for this?

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