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

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

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

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

The Balance is calculated by subtracting the Subsidy from the Amount. 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 (per pay period) until the employee's VHI balance is zero.

See in the IMG: 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.

Circumstances where a normal deduction amount is not being made could be if the employee was on maternity leave or a career break.