Federal Poverty Level 2020

The Federal Poverty Level for 2020 is $12,760.00.

Nonresident Alien Amount 2020

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released the final 2020 Federal Income Tax Withholding Instructions and set the 2020 Nonresident Alien Amount to $12,400.

Attention: For more information, refer to https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15t.pdf.

Warning: As a result of the new IRS Form W-4, the method of determining the Nonresident Alien Additional Amount was updated. According to the IRS, if the check date is 01/01/2020 or later, but the employee’s W-4 is from 2019 or earlier, the Nonresident Alien Additional Amount must be $8,100.00. If the employee has completed a 2020 IRS Form W-4, the Nonresident Alien Additional Amount will be $12,400.00.

The Compute Payroll process in Costpoint will use the applicable Nonresident Alien Additional Amount based on the employee’s tax setup and Form W-4 version. Refer to the following scenarios for more details:

• If the employee’s Nonresident Alien check box is not selected on the Manage Employee Taxes screen, then the Nonresident Alien Additional Amount will be 0.00.

• If the employee’s Nonresident Alien check box is selected with a Form W-4 Version equal to 2019 in the Manage Employee Taxes screen and the check date is 01/01/2020 or later, the Nonresident Alien Additional Amount will be $8,100.00.

• If the employee’s Nonresident Alien check box is selected with a Form W-4 Version that is not 2019 on the Manage Employee Taxes screen, the Nonresident Alien Additional Amount will be $12,400.00.

Arkansas Tax Withholding

The following are tax updates for Arkansas effective March 1, 2020:

• The state tax tables were updated.

• The threshold for adjusting the net taxable income at the $50 range (midrange of $100) increased from $50,000 to $87,001.

• The tax rates used in the formula decreased and now ranges from 0 to 6.6%, down from 0.9 to 6.9%.

Maryland Tax Withholding 2020

The minimum standard deduction value used in the percentage method increases from $1,500 to $1,550. The maximum increases from $2,250 to $2,300.

Attention: For more information, refer to the Employer Withholding Guide: https://www.marylandtaxes.gov/forms/current_forms/Withholding_Guide.pdf.

North Dakota Tax Withholding for 2020 Form W-4

The State of North Dakota changed the income tax withholding methods and tables for 2020 to conform to the redesigned Federal Form W-4. The following are 2020 updates for North Dakota:

• An additional tax table was added for Head of Household filing status for Forms W-4 for 2020 and after.

• A new withholding method was added for Forms W-4 for 2020 and after.

• The amount of one withholding allowance increases from $4,200 to $4,300.

To support the North Dakota update, Costpoint will use two withholding methods which depend on whether the employee’s Form W-4 version is 2020 or if it is 2019 or earlier.

Attention: For more information, refer to the 2020 North Dakota Income Tax Withholding, Rates and Instructions for Wages Paid in 2020: https://www.nd.gov/tax/data/upfiles/media/rates-and-instructions.pdf?20191209214910.

This enhancement adds three new filing statuses and updates existing filing statuses on the State Withholding Filing Status (STATE_FILING_STATUS) database table. The following list identifies the new and updated filing statuses.

• New Filing Statuses:

  • MARRIED WITH 2020 W4

  • SINGLE WITH 2020 W4

  • HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD

• Updated Filing Statuses:

• • • MARRIED (Married with W-4 before 2020)

  • SINGLE OR MARRIED (Single with W-4 before 2020)

 

Application Updates for North Dakota

This Costpoint release updates the following applications to support the tax withholding of North Dakota for 2020:

• Manage Employee Taxes (PRMETAX)/Manage Employee Information (LDMEINFO)

The Manage Employee Taxes screen and the Taxes subtask on the Manage Employee Information screen can now automatically set the withholding state filing status of North Dakota based on the employee’s Federal Form W-4 version.

Depending on the Form W-4 Version (EMPL_TAX.fed_w4_no), the State Filing Status field lookup function will display the following filing statuses for North Dakota:

Form W-4 Version	Filing Statuses
2019	MARRIED SINGLE OR MARRIED EXEMPT
2020	MARRIED WITH 2020 W4 SINGLE WITH 2020 W4 HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD EXEMPT

 

• Configure State Tax Settings (AOMESSST)

The lookup function of the Filing Status field now displays the following filing statuses for North Dakota:

• MARRIED WITH 2020 W4

• SINGLE WITH 2020 W4

• HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD

• Federal Withholding (ESMFEDWH)

The application automatically converts the employee's North Dakota withholding state filing status to the corresponding 2020 filing status when the employee fills out and saves the 2020 W-4.

• Life Events/New Hires (ESMLIFEEVENT)

The Filing Status field lookup function on the State Withholding tab will display the updated filing statuses for North Dakota based on the filing status records added in the Filing Status (ESS_STATE_TAX_LN) table on the Configure State Tax Settings screen and the Form W-4 Version value (EMPL_TAX.fed_w4_no) on the Manage Employee Taxes screen. The lookup displays the following filing statuses for the corresponding Form W-4 version:

Form W-4 Version	Filing Statuses
2019	MARRIED SINGLE OR MARRIED EXEMPT
2020	MARRIED WITH 2020 W4 SINGLE WITH 2020 W4 HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD EXEMPT

On the Federal Withholding tab, the application automatically converts the employee's North Dakota withholding state filing status to the corresponding 2020 filing status when the employee fills out and saves the 2020 W-4.

• Manage State Standard Deductions (PRMSSD)

The application provides tables for the following three new filing statuses:

• MARRIED WITH 2020 W4

• SINGLE WITH 2020 W4

• HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD

• Manage State Tax Tables (PRMSTT)

The tables for the following filing statuses were updated or added:

• MARRIED

• SINGLE OR MARRIED

• MARRIED WITH 2020 W4

• SINGLE WITH 2020 W4

• HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD

• Manage State Tax Withholding Adjustments (PRMSTAC)

Filing Status	Amount per Credit/Exemption
MARRIED	$4,300
SINGLE OR MARRIED	$4,300
MARRIED WITH 2020 W4	$0
SINGLE WITH 2020 W4	$0
HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD	$0

• State Withholding (ESMSTATEWH)

The Filing Status field lookup function will display the updated filing statuses for North Dakota based on the filing status records added in the Filing Status (ESS_STATE_TAX_LN) table on the Configure State Tax Settings screen and the Form W-4 Version value (EMPL_TAX.fed_w4_no) on the Manage Employee Taxes screen. The lookup displays the following filing statuses for the corresponding Form W-4 version:

Form W-4 Version	Filing Statuses
2019	MARRIED SINGLE OR MARRIED EXEMPT
2020	MARRIED WITH 2020 W4 SINGLE WITH 2020 W4 HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD EXEMPT

Virgin Islands Tax Withholding 2020

The following are the tax updates for Virgin Islands effective January 1, 2020:

• The unemployment limit for 2020 is $28,900.00.

• The exemption amount increases from $4,200 to $4,300.

• The state tax tables were updated with the Federal Standard Withholding Rate Schedules using the existing Married, Single, and Head of Household filing statuses.

Defect 1247983: When you used the Web Integration Console to upload a voucher with a Recovery Rate of 0 and clicked Save, the Recovery Rate in the saved record was 100.

Defect 1238702: You encountered an error when you saved a manual check for a vendor with the following conditions:

• The vendor ID contains a quotation mark (').

• The vendor is a subcontractor.

• The vendor has a record on the Lien subtask on the Subcontractor Info subtask in Manage Vendors.

Defect 1141264: This application now allows updates to purchase order receipts, only if they are created during entering of vouchers.

Defect 1210295: You were unable to clear the Approved check box. As a workaround, you can clear it on the Approve Vouchers screen.

Defect 1235314: When you uploaded a voucher using the Web Interface Console, the Transaction Currency was correct but the Pay Currency was overwritten by the Functional Currency. As a workaround, you can manually correct the value of the Pay Currency field.

Defect 1240684: You encountered an error when you saved a vendor whose ID contains a quotation mark (') and is tagged as a subcontractor. This happened when you entered field values on the Bonds subtask on the Subcontractor Info subtask and clicked Save.

Defect 1231555: The journal entry (JE) created by the screen function did not use the next JE number by specific company.

Defect 1228747: Costpoint did not return any records when you queried for records where the Agency field was blank/null. This issue occurred in MSS databases.

Defect 1242743: On the Manage Contracts and Manage Subcontracts screens, you were unable to save a rating if the vendor rating code you selected has the same description as another rating code. As a workaround, change the description of the rating code on the Manage Supplier Vendor Rating Codes screen to make it unique.

Defect 1240750: OpenText changed the encoding for CMIS SOAP messaging, which required the Costpoint Configuration Utility to be updated. If you use Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), you must manually update your enterprise.properties files.

Defect 1265454: When you tried the Kerberos Single Sign-On for WebLogic 12.2.1.3 running with the latest security patches applied, you were unable to log in.

Defect 1236867: Entering the UNC path in the Designer preferences did not work. The Designer converted forward slashes to back slashes, which caused an error to occur. As a workaround, you could use a local folder, such as C:/Deltek/Costpoint/71/tmp, or enter the UNC path with forward slashes in the Form Designer dialog box.

Defect 1149185: After you edited a field on the Modifications subtask of the Manage Project User Flow screen, and the main header form had multiple queried results, a system error occurred when you clicked Refresh/Clear All and then canceled the warning prompt. As a workaround, do not cancel the Refresh All/Clear All popup warning.

Defect 1235396: The inactive screen of an application became active, instead of remaining inactive, after you clicked the Display text popup icon on the Email tab of the Print Options dialog box.

Defect 1241947: The Sign button disappeared from the timesheet in Table view. As a workaround, you could use the Form view.

Defect 1237327: When you used the Spanish language in Time and Expense, some timesheet day headings displayed special characters instead of their Spanish names.

Defect 1241451: An invalid session error occurred shortly after you logged in to Costpoint.

Defect 1258457: You were unable to log into the system after getting a warning message on exceeded licenses.

Defect 1240747: OpenText changed the encoding for CMIS SOAP messaging. If you use Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), you must manually update your enterprise.properties files.

Defect 1265966: Clients running a Dedicated Job Server encountered the following issue with DeltekCostpointMaintenanceRelease_7.1.3.1012.exe: API_UpdateDedicatedEjbsUrls: FAILED, Error in updating for Dedicated Server(s) process. 

Defect 1266074: When you installed Costpoint 7.1.3 MR on WebLogic 12.1.3 systems, the file "C:\Oracle\Middleware12.1.3\oracle_common\modules\bcprov-jdk16-1.45.jar" was installed as a file size of 1KB instead of 3201KB.

Defect 1181445: When you ran the process to compute costed bills of material and downloaded the report with a large number of rows/ranges, you encountered an error.

Defect 1182699: You encountered a system error when you reopened the record you added to the EBOM Orig Assy and EBOM Chng Assy subtasks, and the record you added had a Part ID with a non-existing part.

Defect 1203032: When you saved an ECN record row on the MBOM Chng Assy subtask that was tagged for deletion, you encountered a system error. As a workaround, do not tag the record row for deletion.

Defect 1235279: When you printed a reservation pick list by range, and the Print Serial/Lot check box was selected, the report only displayed non-tracked items.

Defect 1238879: Level column entries on the Full Reqmts subtask were not sorted correctly (Level 1-4).

Defect 1217738: The validation that required a valid entry in the Default Common Stock Inv Abbrev field of the Configure Production Control Settings screen has been removed.

Defect 1023492: When you assigned a PO/Rlse to an ungenerated Assign PO line with a different buyer and/or vendor and/or vendor address on the Assign PO - Combined subtask, you were able to save the requisition even though the requisition status was not Approved.

Defect 1243195: When you did not specify a buyer on the screen and you created a number of purchase orders (PO), the application response time to load the data took a while, and eventually hanged upon save.

Defect 1193366: You were unable to create a purchase order (PO) even though the total requisition amount was equal to the blanket amount balance. In addition, Costpoint displayed the following warning message:"PO not Created - Release would Cause Blanket PO Limit to be Exceeded."

Defect 1204387: When you made changes to the purchase order (PO) after you applied the PO information to the requisition, you encountered a requisition reconciliation issue.

Defect 1222301: When you created requisitions manually, a space was incorrectly added to the table RQ_LN_ACCT.PROJ_ACCT_ABBRV.CD. As a workaround, manually remove the space from the database.

Defect 1230644: When you entered a full relief and checked the sales order (SO) issue in the database, INVT_TRN.INVT_TRN_SRL and INVT_TRN_LN.INVT_TRN_LN_KEY tables reflected as zero (0). This caused a system error during posting.

Defect 1235384: When you accessed a manufacturing order (MO) and tried to update it, an error message displayed. In addition, the error message stated an inaccurate description of the error.

Defect 1238776: The application now disallows a manufacturing order (MO) part/rev to be the same as the Build part/rev when the MO type is Standard.

Defect 1232721: You encountered a system error when you archived a GFM/GFE purchase order (PO). As a workaround, you can enter a dummy/temporary project and account on the Accounts subtask of the Manage Purchase Orders screen to archive GFM/GFE PO.

Defect 1157664: When you changed one buyer to another buyer with an authorization limit on a purchase order (PO) that was open with posted vouchers, Costpoint failed to save the change and displayed the following error: "Cannot change the Status to Pending or Void when receipts or vouchers exist for this PO line item." As a workaround, you can change the status of the header and line from Pending back to Open and save the change.

Defect 1242372: You encountered a system error in Costpoint when you autoreceived a purchase order (PO) with more than 20 lines.

Defect 1232756: You encountered a system error when you saved an inspection with rejected quantity.

Defect 1230726: When you imported sales orders (SO) on the Import Sales Orders screen, the system-generated SO from the Configure Sales Order Entry Settings screen did not update from the incremented SO ID. In addition, when you imported multiple SOs, the system generated the same SO ID from the first import.

Defect 1187715: When you created a packing slip for a sales order (SO) and set the status to Pending, you were unable to delete the packing slip when you tried to delete it.

Defect 1231719: You were able to post a sales order (SO) journal even though the SO journal was set to unavailable (closed period).

Defect 1151226: When you accessed the Supplier Portal Dashboard, the Open Purchase Orders dashpart included purchase orders (PO) with a blank Last Action.

Defect 1192139: The application should report the same count of employees per job category/race or ethnicity/gender in both Component Data 1 and Component 2 Pay Data report types.

Defect 1130405: When you selected Asterisk as the Deletion Indicator option and then you reimported an employee data input file that did not contain asterisks, the process still deleted information from the Product Interface tab of the Manage Employee Information screen.

Defect 1235427: Organization security functionality should apply to the Organization field but not to the Requested By field.

Defect 1223705: The Benefits Sequence subtask should not be available on the Configure Self Service Settings screen.

Defect 1242656: When you clicked Print Paystub, a system error displayed.

Defect 1216281: The application did not update the Timesheet Line Manufacturing Order (TS_LN_MO) table for weighted average recalculation.

Defect 1212863: If you used the union fringe functionality, a critical error occurred when you attempted to upload timesheets.

Defect 1239782: When your payroll setup had 27 pay periods due to a bank holiday, the system calculated taxes incorrectly. The system calculated amounts based on only 24 or 26 pay cycles. This issue also affected other applications.

Affected Application	Defect No.
Compute Payroll	1237128
Manage Employee Earnings History	1239783
Recompute Taxable Wages	1239784
Print Quarterly Federal Payroll Tax Report	1239785

Defect 1244082: You could not create a BUD with the Current Period setting.

Defect 1212312: The Burdened Cost subtask did not display the correct indirect allocations.

Defect 1212324: The Shared functionality was not working as expected.

Defect 1212318: The Burdened Cost subtask drill-down did not display the Raw Cost on the first row with the pool allocations underneath.

Defect 1242907: When you tried to calculate EAC Revenue, the system omitted Vendor Employees in Actuals.

Defect 1096732: The application took longer than expected to calculate bills.

Defect 1207368: The application did not compute any labor discount on bills. This issue occurred in Oracle and MSS databases. As a workaround, you can manually add labor discounts on the Manage Standard Bills screen.

Defect 1238766: The CALCBILL_USER_BILLS function has been updated. This handles multiple users processing the Calculate Standard Bills at the same time. It also handles errors when the system crashes and the process is interrupted.

Defect 1239810: You received system errors when other users were concurrently running the application.

Defect 1240024: Costpoint incorrectly included on-hold amounts in the invoice when the currency of the posted transaction was different from the functional currency. When you calculated the bill for the first time with an amount on hold, Costpoint correctly calculated the bill. When you posted the bill and recalculated it with the Auto-Release On-Hold Items check box selected in Calculate Standard Bills, the bill resulted to the whole original amount including the previously billed amount.

Defect 1140743: The application did not update the AR_SALES_TAX table when posting for IWO billings. As a workaround, you can manually update the table using the Manage Accounts Receivable History application.

Defect 1236263: The PROJ_SPPRT_SCH_NO value became zero in the cumulative tables after the first failed posting, resulting in a system error when you restarted the posting.

Defect 1025241: This application did not update the Manage Subcontractor Progress Payments screen with vouchers marked as delivery invoices. (Invoice Type was set to Delivery on the Manage Accounts Payable Vouchers screen.)

Defect 1128840: When you used the Replace All function, Costpoint did not automatically compute the Fee Amount column in the Direct table window.

Defect 1129151: The Copy Record function was not working.

Defect 1100142: The Copy Record function was not working.

Defect 1140683: When you ran this application, an error occurred when no pool cost or pool base items were set up for the pools. When you cleared the error, the process stopped and did not move forward to the next process.

As a workaround, complete these steps:

1. Add records to the Create Pool Links application for accounts/organizations that already exist in the pool base.

2. Do not run the Month End Processes or Cost Pool Processes screen. Instead, use the Compute Revenue Processes or Reporting Processes screen.

Defect 1207423: Costpoint did not filter IWO entries by company ID when the range of IWO entries included those from other companies. This occurred in MSS and Oracle databases. As a workaround, you can limit the IWO entries to be processed for a given company only.

Defect 1193105: The Revenue Summary Report (RSR) did not include prior year (PY) adjustment period revenue for contract-to-date revenue amounts. It was also out of sync with the Project Status Report (PSR) and the Revenue Worksheet. The PSR was correct, but the RSR picked up only the revenue line for the PSR and not the adjustment period PY revenue.

Defect 1216654: After you entered values in the Value and Fee fields, Costpoint did not automatically populate/calculate the other fields. This occurred in both the Value Modifications and Funding Modifications group boxes. As a workaround, you can click an unrelated field (for example, Subcontract ID) and press TAB.

Defect 1242639: An error occurred when you tried to clone a record with a value in the Agency field exceeding 8 characters. This field should have accepted up to 15 characters.

Defect 1032534: Costpoint did not validate the unallowable accounts you entered in the Default Accounts group box. You were able to enter accounts that are not project-required and save the record.

Defect 1098873: Costpoint allowed you to delete a resource on the Vendor Employees subtask even if this resource has been used in a timesheet within Time & Expense. This defect affects clients who use both Time & Expense and the Subcontractor Management module.

Defect 1219190: When you automatically loaded or manually entered charge lines in the application, Costpoint incorrectly populated Charge Type with Other for all items.

Defect 1228414: When you used the Auto Load Charge Lines function and saved the record without editing the amounts on the charge lines, Costpoint did not calculate/populate the Total Charge Line Amt field (on the Charges subtask) and the Functional Total Charge Line Amt field (on the Currency Line subtask). When you edited the Amount Before Discount field on the Charges subtask and saved the record, Costpoint populated those fields.

Defect 1228942: Costpoint did not revalidate the charge line amounts when you changed the Allow Charge line to exceed PO Line value option from None to Error or Warning on an existing work assignment that already has charges above the purchase order (PO) line value, and you did not make any other edits to the work assignment.

Defect 1241541: When Expense was the only module licensed by the client, the Functional role failed to display the Expense tab.

Defect 1230393: When you saved a Planned Expense where 100% of the expense was allocated, you received an error message that said that Total Allocation Percentage must equal 100%.

Defect 1232509: The adjustment for conference lodging did not allow amounts over 100%. 

Defect 1248169: When users with multiple roles launched expense authorization tasks, the first role listed in alphabetical order was used to determine rights versus all roles when determining revisions without status change logic. Because of this, users lacked the option to save without revision changes.

Defect 1228184: When users with multiple roles launched expense report tasks, the first role listed in alphabetical order was used to determine rights versus all roles when determining revisions without status change logic. Because of this, users lacked the option to save without revision changes.

Defect 1231343: Users with combined per diem schedules who had set up the country as a default in Expense Report Types were unable to change the default.

Defect 1237787: Employees were able to create and edit expense charge allocations that did not add up to 100%.

Defect 1237850: Employees were able to create and edit expense charge allocations that did not add up to the total expense.

Defect 1243055: Performance improvements were made related to task delegation. 

Defect 1229264: Because several fields were removed from the Expense Wizard Table view, users were no longer able to transfer the same fields from the table to Excel that they could previously. This created unnecessary additional steps for several customers.

Defect 1175751: Employees were able to undo corrections to approved correcting timesheets when the period was not configured to allow modifications to approved timesheets.

Defect 1228823: Employee leave was not updated when Holiday leave auto-populated.

Defect 1237877: When a subcontractor copied a work assignment line on a timesheet and clicked Save, the line changed to a different work assignment from what was copied.