We are a large company (5,000+ employees world wide). We have many divisions and self-insure all employees. The employee/employer paid portion for each division is different. The exact dollar amount paid by each employee is stored in our FACTS claim paying system. In order to comply with reporting the cost of employer-provided health care on the employee's 2012 Form W-2, we are attempting to import this dollar amount into Dynamics GP via SmartConnect. Our hope was to import this data just as we would our payroll time card data. We set up a new payroll benefit code in order to attach the cost of employer-provided health care to the employee. When running a test, the data imported with no problem, but in trying to process this "special" payroll that only contained the benefit paycode we received the message "Base pay for this benefit/deduction was not included for the employee." We checked the benefit code and removed any based on pay codes. The only way that we were able to get it to process without an error was to base the benefit code on a paycode of miscpay that had a value of 1 cent. This then resulted in a check wanting to be printed for each employee.
Is there a different\better way that I should be trying in order to associate the cost of employer-provided health care with the employee?
Thank you.
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