Release 1444 responds to two error reports in the area of expense
distribution.  Both problems are addressed by modifications to PPP520:

- In an expense transfer, for an employee with FICA eligibility code E,
   the combined FICA benefit amount must be separated into OASDI
   and Medicare components.  Currently this isn't happening; instead,
   the entire transfer amount is being assigned to OASDI, but r1444
   corrects this problem and will pro-rate based on relative OASDI
   and Medicare contribution rates.

- This last year we've had a couple of releases that implemented a
   hierarchy of ways to charge 'leftover' benefits.  Error Report 1820
   notes that we've been pro-rating benefits percentages to only
   2 decimal positions.  To improve the accuracy of the calculations,
   r1444 changes the calculation "to use a 6 decimal place factor to
   produce a more equitable pro-ration among accounts."

- "As a related problem, during the TOE record selection, it is possible
   that the Miscellaneous Benefit FAU will be selected from the TOE
   file and utilized for the benefit charge.  These TOE records should be
   bypassed.  When no other eligible TOE rows are present, the
   process will still default to the Miscellaneous Benefit FAU (CPWSXIC5)
   but the message will indicate this rather than indicating that the FAU
   source was the TOE file."

There are no table updates.

We have monthly reporting, including expense distribution, scheduled
to run early next week.  If you could give us a quick approval on this,
I think we could install in time for January expense distribution for
most sites.

   bvb