Health Insurance Ireland (Infotype 0386) 

Definition

This infotype stores details of an employee‘s VHI / BUPA membership details and also employee‘s subscription details.

For more information, see Creating multiple health insurance policies for one employee.

Use

All the subscription information needed to calculate a health insurance deduction is stored in infotype Health Insurance Ireland (0386). The Payroll component uses this data to make the correct VHI / BUPA deductions from wages and salaries.

Backdated changes to the infotype Health Insurance Ireland (0386) record do not trigger retroactive accounting.

 

Structure

Membership details

For VHI, all of the fields in the Membership Details section are supplied by the VHI and uniquely identify the policy holder to VHI.

Deduction

The balance field is calculated by subtracting the Subsidy field from the Amount field. This Balance is used as the deduction amount and is processed during payroll using the wage types specified in the Wage Type field.

The amount in the Periodic Amount field indicates the health insurance amount that is deducted per period. To arrive at this amount (for VHI), you can use the amount from the VHI diskette or manually enter an amount directly into the field. In addition, you can also use Balances and Totals by copying standard health insurance wage types. The system will continually keep a running total of the Health Insurance Balance and deduct the amount specified in the Periodic Amount field (per pay period) until the employee's VHI balance is zero.

For the customizing step required to copy standard health insurance wage types, see in the IMG, under: Payroll Ireland   ® Health Insurance  ® Copy standard SAP Health Insurance wage types.

In those instances where a normal deduction amount is not being made, the Comment field is used to indicate this to the VHI / BUPA. For VHI, the contents of this field are included in the download file that is supplied to VHI.

A normal deduction is not made if the employee was on maternity leave or a career break, for example.

Integration

For VHI, the infotype Health Insurance Ireland (0386) is updated annually from a diskette from VHI, containing policy and subscription details for the relevant employees. For more information, see Uploading VHI details.

Details of the amount of subscription paid by employees toward their policy are supplied to VHI by downloading the details to a diskette. For more information, see Downloading VHI Details.

The intervals at which this download is supplied to VHI are customizable. The relevant IMG steps can be found in the IMG, under: Payroll: Ireland ® Health Insurance ® Create Health Insurance Plans.