Possible Quirks / Bugs (Watch out)

[Tom Poje]

Nondiscrimination Module

The NHCE concentration % may be incorrect.

Terminees with less than 500 hours are being included in the concentration test, but not in the ratio percentage test.

example:

3 nhces, 1 hce. one NHCE terminated with less than 500 hrs, one nhce terminated > 500 hrs. terminees do not receive allocation.

while cross testing I get a ratio % of

1/2 divided by 1/1

but my concentration % is showing as 3/4 = 75%.

It should be 2/3 = 66%, or at least that is my understanding of the regs.

This may cause a plan to say it passes, when in reality it fails.

This is the rate group report on an HCE.

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create new plan from existing plan (including employees)

have a profit sharing plan. created a money purchase plan, and copied existing employees.

Status code and status date do not get copied, so have to re-key terminees status code and date!

also, participants who I deleted from the

prior year magically reappeared! so I had to delete them from the money purchase.

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census request

I am sometimes 'rented' out, so to speak, to do Quantech training. No, I am not working for Quantech, this started as part of something I do for the Southern Users Group. Anyway, I was discussing the top-paid group calculation for HCEs.

One of the items involved is hours - the system checks to make sure ees worked an average of 17 1/2 hours a week.

(e.g. an ee who quits 1/5 with 20 hours is considered in the top paid group count because he averaged over 17 /12 hours a week. [assuming he is over age 21, and has worked at least 6 months in prior year])

One of the trainees pointed out that the census request asks for the following codes: 0 = <500 hrs

1=>500 but < 1000 hrs

2= >= 1000 hrs

I hadn't thought about it before, be he is correct, if all you go by is a simple code like that rather than actually hours, your top paid group count will be incorrect. Most of the time this won't make a difference, but be careful because it might!

see the trainer gets trained!

this is not a bug, but something to watch out for.

The other problems have been reported to Quantech, but I figure this is a good spot to make other people aware of 'possible' bugs. I call them possible bugs, because there is always a chance I coded something wrong, although in the examples cited this seems doubtful.