UK Absence - Public Sector Pension - Multiple Assignment - Formula Changes

If you’re implementing UK public sector pensions (like Teacher Pension Scheme) in Oracle Cloud Payroll, you’ve probably hit this issue: Oracle’s Teacher Pension guide says formula changes are needed for multiple assignments and absences—but doesn’t show what to change. The links loop endlessly, and the real instructions are buried in the Civil Service guide.

Without these changes, Assumed Pensionable Pay (APP) won’t calculate correctly because the TPS absence formula never enters the right condition.

The TPS implementation guide simply says:

To ensure that the payment factor specific to each assignment is used to determine the contribution base and tier for that assignment, you must edit the following formulas: