Pension Claim

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    David Grima
    Participant

      Wingecarribee

      Hello all,
      I am interested to know what everyone is doing in regards to the request from the Audit Office for our pension claim to be submitted to them in a required format.
      I spoke to our contact who advised that the ‘central team’ managing the claim had not received any enquiries or complaints. I find that pretty hard to believe.
      Dave

      #19886
      Pete Timmins
      Participant

        Shoalhaven

        Hello fellow Revenue Professionals,

        We advised our auditor that our system could not extract the information in the format required and sent them samples of what we could provide which over several files contained all the information they required. Their response is copied below. This response was received on Tuesday 11 August.

        Regards
        Pete

        The Central group advised that they need all the information to be included in the report for efficiency in centralised testing.

        4 An excel sheet (refer to tab: Detailed spreadsheet of claims) listing in columns:
        – Pensioner Name
        – Pensioner ID number
        – Property address where concession claimed
        – Property ID number – Annual Ordinary rates for the year for the property
        – Amount written-off for ordinary rates
        – Amount written-off for water rates
        – Amount written-off for sewerage rates
        – Total amount written-off
        – Period of claim (from and to)
        – Pensioner matched to Centrelink report [Yes / No].

        * The details for each pensioner should be entered into rows and a separate line used for each pensioner for each year of their claim.
        * The total of that spreadsheet must equal the Application for Pensioner Concession Subsidy, the amount noted on the General Managers Certificate and the documents supporting the amount written-off by the delegated officer or Council resolution. Each pensioner must be validated by the Council as a valid pensioner, if the pensioner is not validated by the Centrelink report, other evidence must be provided to audit for each of those pensioners

        This may require manual preparation of the report. Is there a way to generate multiple reports using different reporting parameters but all containing the Pensioner ID number? The Pensioner ID number can then be used as common reference to combine the reports.

        #19885
        Lee Howard
        Blocked

          Great Lakes

          Hi yes we have the same issue and as we are merged and still on 4 different systems we had a lot of trouble trying to make the reports look the same. I did tell them them they should have told us this time last year on how they required the information not 2 weeks ago. We have done the best we can but its not all how they wanted it. We couldn’t pull some of the info out retrospectively for last year in their required format.
          We have never supplied the beneficiary details in the spreadsheets before.
          Will be interesting to see whether they approve the claim am expecting lots of emails.

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