2021 USERRA Make-up Amounts for 2020

You can now select USERRA make-up amounts for 2020 on the Box 12 subtask of the Manage W-2s screen. The Code field lookup now lists the following new Box 12 codes:

Box 12 Code	Box 12 Description
D 20	USERRA 2020 make up elective deferrals to a section 401(k) cash or deferred arrangement
E 20	USERRA 2020 make up elective deferrals to a section 403(b) salary reduction agreement
F 20	USERRA 2020 make up elective deferrals to a section 408(k)(6) salary reduction agreement
G 20	USERRA 2020 make up elective deferrals and employer contributions (including nonelective deferrals) to a section 457(b) deferred comp plan
H 20	USERRA 2020 make up elective deferrals under a section 501(c)(18)(D) tax-exempt organization plan
S 20	USERRA 2020 make up employee salary reduction contributions under a section 408(p) SIMPLE
Y 20	USERRA 2020 make up deferrals under section 409A nonqualified deferred compensation plan
AA 20	USERRA 2020 make up designated Roth contributions to a section 401(k) plan
BB 20	USERRA 2020 make up designated Roth contributions under a section 403(b) salary reduction agreement
EE 20	USERRA 2020 make up designated Roth contributions under a section 457(b) plan

2021 Idaho Tax Table Updates

Idaho’s withholding methods were updated by the state tax commission to include the following income tax rate and bracket changes:

• The number of income tax brackets reduced from seven to five.

• Tax rates have been set from zero to 6.5% instead of from zero to 6.925%.

• Upper threshold of the zero-percent tax bracket increased from $12,400 to $12,550 for single employees.

• Upper threshold of the zero-percent tax bracket increased from $24,800 to $25,100 for married employees.

• The value of a state allowance increased from $2,960 to $3,154.

• The supplemental withholding rate decreased from 6.925% to 6.5%.

Attention: For more information, refer to: https://tax.idaho.gov/pubs/EPB00744_07-07-2021.pdf.

To support the state requirements, this release applies corresponding updates to the following screens:

• Manage State Taxes

• Manage State Tax Withholding Adjustments

• Manage State Tax Tables

Note: This enhancement requires patch dbc_800_10656.

2021 Kansas Tax Table Updates

The state revenue department of Kansas updated the withholding methods in the state employer’s guide, which are retroactively effective as of January 1, 2021.

Attention: For more information, refer to:

• NOTICE 21-22: https://www.ksrevenue.org/taxnotices/notice21-22.pdf

• Kansas Withholding Tax Guide: https://ksrevenue.org/pdf/kw100.pdf

To support the state requirements, this release updates the following screens:

• Manage State Tax Tables

• Manage State Taxes

• Manage State Tax Withholding Adjustments

• Manage State Standard Deductions

Note: This enhancement requires patch dbc_800_10661.

2021 Ohio Tax Table Updates

Ohio’s withholding methods were revised effective September 1 to incorporate lowered income tax rates. The new tables take into consideration the income tax rate reductions that went into effect when House Bill 110 (134th General Assembly) was signed into law on July 1, 2021.

To support the updates to the Optional Computer Method, this release adds new tax table records effective 09/01/2021 on the following screens:

• Manage State Taxes

• Manage State Standard Deductions

• Manage State Tax Withholding Adjustments

• Manage State Tax Tables

Note: This enhancement requires patch dbc_800_10681.

Support for 12-Digit Shop Floor Time Transaction ID

Costpoint now supports Transaction IDs from Shop Floor Time that contain up to 12 characters. The column size for the Transaction ID from Shop Floor Time (TRANS_ID) increases from 8 to 12 characters on the Timesheet Line (TS_LN) table. This update prevents errors that occur when the Transaction ID created in Shop Floor Time exceeds 8 characters.

The following applications were updated for this enhancement:

• Manage Correcting Timesheets (LDMCTIME)

• Manage Timesheets (LDMTIME)

• Apply Timesheet Adjustments in Batch Mode (LDPAUTO)

• Post Timesheets (LDPLDJ)

• Create Retroactive Timesheet Adjustments (LDPRETRO)

• Create Reversing Timesheets (LDPREVTS)

• Import Timesheets from Deltek Time and Expense (LDPUPET)

• Print Timesheet Information Report by Account (LDRAEDIT)

• Print Timesheet Information Report by Employee (LDRTEDIT)

• Print Timesheet History Report (LDRTHFR)

Defect 1481537: You encountered an error when you attempted to approve multiple checks.

Defect 1502070: Workflow completion and rejection emails were sent from the default message ID instead of the message ID assigned to the Workflow.

Defect 1451728: The process of importing Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and supplemental regulation files into Costpoint now supports special characters and new lines. Note, however, that only the FAR/supplemental regulation Description column/field in the input file is allowed to have special characters and new lines.

 

Take note of the following guidelines:

Adding	Instruction	Examples
Special characters, double quotation marks within Description	Enclose the whole Description text with double quotation marks.	"special characters #$%" "Adding these quotes "" within this description" "Adding these quotes "" and special characters #$% within this description"
New lines	Enclose the whole Description text with double quotation marks.	"first line second line"

 

You import FAR/supplemental regulation information into Costpoint via the Import FAR/Supplemental Regulation Files subtask on any of the following screens. Updates to these applications are included in the defects stated below.

Defect Number	Application Name
1451728	Manage FAR Library
1451732	Manage Supplemental Regulations Library
1451723	Manage Contracts
1451726	Manage Subcontracts

Defect 1492533: On the Labor Categories subtask of the Team tab, a system error occurred when you deleted records with a labor category ID containing an apostrophe.

Defect 1502453: Due to a bad sender address syntax in the workflow, a system error occurred when the final step of the workflow was executed on the Manage Contracts screen (either Approve or Reject).

Defect 1490558: An error message displayed when you entered a value with trailing spaces in the ID field on the Opportunity Primes/Competitors subtask of the Team tab.

Defect 1492534: On the Labor Categories subtask of the Team tab, a system error occurred when you deleted records with a labor category ID containing an apostrophe.

Defect 1498710: Saving in the Costpoint Configuration Utility overwrote the Integration Owner value on the Cobra tab. As a workaround, you can manually set the Integration Owner value in enterprise.properties.

Defect 1291655: A critical system error occurred when you performed any content management integration (CMI) operation with SharePoint in Office 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High).

Defect 1491100: When you logged in to Costpoint, the application screen did not default to the saved two-column layout. As a workaround, you can click Apply two column layout to load the saved application preferences, or select No in the Use Auto Position mode field on the User Interface tab in Manage Users. And then, manually adjust the application screens to mimic the two-column layout.

Defect 1493526: Print Options were cleared even though the options were saved in a parameter. You had to apply the Print Options each time you submitted a process via batch to the job server when the affected records were displayed immediately on the screen.

Defect 1489338: When you used the Apply Engineering Change Notices application, the COMPANY_ID was missing from the ROUTING_LN table.

Defect 1493212: When you ran the Apply Engineering Change Notices report, you received the following ECN Exception Report message: “This Manufacturing BOM line conflicts with existing BOM line.”

Defect 1494933: When you cloned a request for quote (RFQ) with an RQ_ID in the header, the standard text failed to save in the new RFQ.

Defect 1484396: When you reversed an issue where an inventory part was issued to a non-inventory requirement line, you encountered a system error.

Defect 1484811: When you issued a negative quantity against a manufacturing order (MO), you encountered an error.

Defect 1483455: When there are different components or component revisions that have the same component line number, a mismatch occurred between the component part key and the component part ID and revision.

Defect 1484202: When you created a manufacturing order (MO) with a status of Firm Planned, Released, or In-Shop, and you clicked the Autoload button, the action did not populate the router. It was only populated when you saved the order.

Defect 1493555: When you manually entered a change order number that was out of sequence, the change order number entered was not saved, and Costpoint incremented the previous change order number by one (1).

Defect 1488825: Some missing options for the PO Receipt Lines query drop-down list, such as Item, were restored.

Defect 1493013: When you loaded a receipt ID to perform quality control inspection for purchase order (PO) lines with Other as the charge type, you encountered an error.

Defect 1494203: When you processed an input file, you encountered a system error.

Defect 1493990: The Prior Year Totals column of the Component 1 report displayed incorrect values.

Defect 1469705: Costpoint did not apply the default compensation plan on imported employee records. The application should use the default compensation plan that was set up for the labor group and labor location on the Manage Compensation Plan Defaults screen.

 

As a workaround, manually enter the correct compensation plan for the employee on the Manage Employee Salary Information screen.

Defect 1417958: When you selected new retirement plan options/deductions on the Retirement Benefits screen, the corresponding records created on Manage Employee Deductions screen records had a value of 99 in the Priority field.

Defect 1421010: When you added or updated retirement plan options/deductions on the Retirement Benefits screen, the corresponding employee deduction records had blank Priority and Limit fields on the View Deductions screen.

Defect 1490058: The screen did not display current elections. The application retrieved records from the HB_EMPL_CURR_ELEC table instead of the HB_EMPL_PKG_ELEC table.

Defect 1491103: When you attempted to export subcontractor groups by manager, and employee groups by supervisor/manager/home org/HR org, the export process did not include future-dated records in the data transfer to Deltek Time and Expense. This issue occurred when you selected the Changes Since Last Download check box in your export setup. As a workaround, you can set up the export process to include the complete data (full download).

Defect 1433510: The application should allow you to delete Salary Cap timesheets and Reversing timesheets. As a workaround, complete the following steps:

1. Clone the Salary Cap timesheet.

2. Change amounts to offset initial Salary Cap timesheets.

3. Change the timesheet type to Correcting.

Defect 1476754: When you run the Post Timesheets process, Costpoint should populate the Hours to Bill field on the Manage Open Billing Detail screen.

Defect 1477245: The Ref 2 field must be repositioned so that the contents of both the Ref 1 and Ref 2 fields display properly on the Timesheet Information by Employee Report.

Defect 1473659: The online help information for Post Leave Accruals should not include LAB_HIST in the list of tables updated by the screen.

Defect 1496336: The field label Update CER Reporting Tables was changed to Update BI Reporting Tables to reflect current product labeling.

Defect 1497365: The screen name Batch Update Project Budgets was changed to Mass Recommit Project Budgets/EACs.

Defect 1496913: Top Level and Level Down reports displayed null values.

Defect 1493139: When you tried to create a project budget with no associated revenue, you received an error message after attempts to validate the revenue account failed.

Defect 1488677: On the Audit Budget Group Details subtask, the format "Burdened Cost" displayed the total Burden under only one pool number, when it should have displayed all pools and cost information and a consolidated line for the total.

Defect 1487300: Performance issues such as slow processing times occurred when you worked on large indirect budgets.

Defect 1488565: The Burden calculation failed to calculate after tier 1 pools when the base amount was not part of the next pool tier base.

Defect 1494231: When using ETC or EAC revenue formulas, with Use Fixed Revenue as Total Revenue selected, revenue could not be calculated unless you manually entered Fixed Revenue into the budget.

Defect 1458847: The Autoload button did not work when you selected All in Template Project Budget.

 

As a workaround, you can select Range in Template Project Budget and indicate the first and last projects that should be included in the range.

Defect 1358726: When you used the Consolidated Standard/Retro Billing Options group box, Costpoint allowed you to enter and save a non-existent period in the Period For Rates field in the Include One Prior Fiscal Year option.

 

As a workaround, enter a valid period and recalculate bills.

Defect 1362428: Calculate Standard Bills was not correctly picking up withholding codes when you selected the Current Activity Only check box and you ran this application for more than one bill.

 

As a workaround, you can calculate for a single invoice project at a time.

Defect 1415638: A system error occurred upon running this application given the following setup:

• A Sales Tax Code value was entered on the Manage Unit Usage screen.

• Incremental was selected in Basis for Pricing on the Item Linkage subtask of the Manage CLIN Information screen.

As a workaround, you may opt to set up tax using Manage Project Sales Tax Setups, and do not enter a Sales Tax Code in Manage Unit Usage.

Defect 1479495: Costpoint updated the TIME_STAMP value in the MILESTONE_INVC_LN table for all milestone invoice lines when you added new lines in the application.

Defect 1414604: The application was skipping a posting sequence number.

Defect 1412212: The following error occurred when you tried to manually reverse invoices for a project with more than 64 different customers: "java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 64."

Defect 1447823: On the NASA 533 Quarterly Report, the Next FY column label and values were incorrect since the current fiscal year values were already included in the two columns before it (Quarter and Balance of FY). The Balance of Contract values were also incorrect.

 

As a workaround, you can manually correct the label and values when you print the report in PDF, Microsoft Excel, or Microsoft Word.

Defect 1486369: A system error occurred when you tried to preview or print the Quick Project Information Report.

Defect 1412206: The Account Group Allow Edit check box value did not flow down to the lower levels of the project.

Defect 1455724: When you clicked the Load Defaults button for an existing project, the system removed the L1_PROJ_SEG_ID value from the PROJ table.

 

As a workaround, you can run the Check and/or Rebuild Project Segment IDs utility to recover the segment ID value.

Defect 1462950: The Customer Allow Edit check box value did not flow down to the lower levels of the project when you created multiple child projects without saving.

Defect 1496911: You received the following error message when you changed the Export Project value on a project: "Opportunity Does not Exist."

Defect 1462216: When you clicked the Auto Load Workforce button on the Vendor Employees subtask within the Charges subtask, Costpoint did not load the rate for the vendor employees.

Defect 1466032: Costpoint allowed changing of the labor rate even if there were already posted invoices for the work assignment, charge line, and/or resource.

Defect 1496211: An error occurred when the AR Aging Report was generated and Customer was used as the primary grouping sort. As a workaround, you can use the legacy version of the AR Aging Report, though it is unsecured.

Defect 1500407: Labor Suppression was not applied in the following fields on the secured Planning model even if model security was turned on:

• ITD Budget Amount

• ITD Budget Burden Amount

• ITD Budget Revenue Amount

• YTD Budget Amount

• YTD Budget Burden Amount

• YTD Budget Revenue Amount

• EAC ITD Amount

• EAC ITD Burden Amount

• EAC ITD Revenue Amount

• EAC YTD Amount

• EAC YTD Burden Amount

• EAC YTD Revenue Amount

Defect 1500409: The Age Bucket column headers on the AR Aging Report were not updated based on the selected range on the prompt screen. The report is associated to the secured Accounts Receivable model.

Defect 1500410: There was a join issue in the Inventory Transaction area of the Manufacturing package of the secured Materials model.

Defect 1500413: The key fields in the secured Materials model were hidden.

Defect 1502367: When employees tried to submit expense reports that were initially submitted by others on their behalf, an error occurred.