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What payroll field and table track if a deduction (element) was actually deducted from gross?
Summary:
If an employee's gross pay is not large enough to accommodate all of his/her payroll deductions (i.e. taxes, benefit deductions, 401K), it looks like Oracle deducts what it can based on the priority assigned to each deduction. I need to find the table and name of the field that tracks whether each deduction (element) was actually taken from an employee's paycheck.
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I need to create a BI Publisher report to pull employer contributions and employee deductions for health savings account (H.S.A) elements that were set up in our system. The results of my query for a particular time frame (07/22/2023 through 08/07/2023) are not reconciling to an Oracle Payroll Activity Report for the same time frame, and the reason why is because my query is pulling an employee's Retro HSA deduction amount, which did not actually get deducted from the employee's paycheck because his gross pay was not large enough to accommodate all his deductions. Therefore, I need to adjust