What is the best practice for creating payroll checks for terminated employees?

What is the best practice for creating payroll checks for terminated employees? For example, we may term an employee in September but we have a yearly bonus that is paid out in December and that termed employee is due a pro-rated amount. Currently, the HR associates go into E1 and 'rehire' the person until the December bonus payroll ID is run and then they have to remember to re-terminate them. This is not ideal for a number of reasons.

I've searched through the knowledgebase and it looks like simply going into the terminated employee record and changing the pay status to a '9' may be a better option and will work for what we need.