Finishing Fortnight for Jobkeeper

Tania Lindenmayer
Tania Lindenmayer Member Posts: 37 ✭
edited August 2020 in Accounts Hosted
if a staff member is finishing Jobkeeper early and I am paying them for this fortnight which is eligible for job keeper but it is their last do I use the next pay fortnight as the end date or this fortnight?

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  • Janine Dickson
    Janine Dickson Member Posts: 33 ✭✭
    edited August 2020
    use the NEXT JobKeeper fortnight No  as the FINISH FN - otherwise you won't get payment for this current Job Keeper Fortnight that  they are still eligible for
    Note Reckon had in their instructions to use the same FINISH FN  and i am unsure if updated - we found out the hard way that if you put the same FN FINISH date down as the last FN they are eligible you don't get the JK Payment
  • Lauren_10794725
    Lauren_10794725 Member Posts: 1 ✭
    edited August 2020
    me too.. how did you rectify? Reckon really should have put a notification out that this is wrong
  • Janine Dickson
    Janine Dickson Member Posts: 33 ✭✭
    edited August 2020
    I altered the FN on the pay and did an update event but as it was already after the end of the relevant FN / claim cycle final date so  it didn't update to the ATO JK section   - It was only one employee for us and we had already claimed that cycle so we didn't worry in the end.  i believe others have called the ATO and had it manually altered to be included in the claim
  • Lilly Scalora
    Lilly Scalora Member Posts: 49 ✭
    edited August 2020
    Hi Linda/Rav

    By the end of Sept, we are still don't know if we eligible for Jobkeeper 2, so do we still need to use FN13 as finish the Jobkeeper 1?
  • kenl90
    kenl90 Member Posts: 55 ✭✭

    Should have read Janine Dickson's post before I submitted my last JK payrun through STP. Just received an email (1st.Oct) from ATO stating exactly what Janine posted - "use the NEXT JobKeeper fortnight No as the FINISH FN - otherwise you won't get payment for this current Job Keeper Fortnight that they are still eligible for"

    This was not clear in Reckon's user manual (see attached)

    Reckon JK-FINISH.png

    All my eligible employees finishes JK on 27th.Sept (FN13). As per Reckon's user guide, I added JOBSEEKER-FINISH-FN13 to the last pay run. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

    ATO suggested this, "You need to check that you haven't end dated an employee incorrectly by providing a JOBKEEPER-FINISH-FN13 code in your STP reporting, as this will end date your employees from 13 September; If your employees are eligible for the second fortnight in September you can correct this by sending the code JOBKEEPER-START-FN13 through STP. This will allow you to update your eligible employees and correctly complete your monthly declaration" - not 27 September

    I can't do the above as I already have 2 pay runs (one weekly and a monthly) submitted. As such, when you create a $0 pay run for all the employees affected, you 'inherit' all the JK-FINISH-FN13 and JK-TOPUP codes in the STP file. (don't know why). So this is what I did to ensure that only JK-START-FN13 is in the file. Not sure if it's correct but will check with ATO tomorrow.

    1. Undo the 2 pay runs with JK-FINISH-FN13 and JK-TOPUP pay item
    2. Delete only the JK-FINISH-FN13 item
    3. Resubmit the 2 pay runs via STP
    4. Created an Unscheduled pay run with JK-START-FN13 (may be unnecessary) and submit via STP

    To Reckon support ---- This should have been published and the user guide updated. Lots of time lost . I read Reckon's user guide at least TWICE to ensure I get it right. Alas, it was wrong. Please update before more users get into the same predicament as I

  • Jo Arnold
    Jo Arnold Member Posts: 87 ✭✭

    Can anyone please advise which payrun and what Jobkeeper finish FN date I should use. We are not applying for Jobkeeper 2 so the last payrun ending 27 September will be the last fortnight we will be claiming for.

    Do I put the FN date in my next payrun and will it be FN 13 or 14?


    Thanks in advance.

  • Kris_Williams
    Kris_Williams Member Posts: 3,290 Reckon Accounts Hosted Expert Reckon Accounts Hosted Expert
    edited October 2020

    Do nothing, just stop paying any topups

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