Manual Payments Action
At 1SD (AG)
To deal with manual payments at the
1st specified date (1SD),
consider steps 1 - 9 below. The guide is presented as follows
Note: You must only follow this guidance when you
are instructed to do so by your manager
Initial action
| 1 | If you are
- Working on a payment that is due on the
Manual Payments database, go to step 2
- Dealing with a referral from the Restore
Team to reinstate the payments, go to step 9
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| 2 | Use Function VIEW
HOUSEHOLD NOTES
- If the following has been entered
'TCMZ Renewal status is (status of renewal), man pyts not
stopped at 1SD'
Instead
- If the following has been entered
'TCMZ Man pyts stopped as a result of 1SD renewals processing
....'
- Do not make any manual payments
Instead
- If neither have been entered, go to step
3
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| 3 | Use Function VIEW S17
DETAILS
- Enter the claimant's
NINO in the Key Entry Data
screen
- Click on the [OK] button. You will be
taken to the Current Position screen
- If you are taken to the Select Individual screen or Select
Household screen, click on the relevant individual or
household, as appropriate
to highlight it and then click on the [OK] button. You will be
taken to the Select S17 Period screen
- Click on the
PY award to highlight it and then
click on the [OK] button. You will then be taken to the Current
Position screen
- Make a note of the renewal status. If the
status is
- Finalised Actual DD/MM/CCYY – Full Reply, go to step
8
- Finalised Estimated DD/MM/CCYY – Full Reply, go to step
8
- Finalised Actual DD/MM/CCYY – Managed, go to step 8
- Finalised Estimate DD/MM/CCYY – Managed, go to step
8
- Auto Renewed DD/MM/CCYY, go to step 8
- Any other status, go to step 4
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Establish if manual payments should
stop
| 4 | On the Current Position
screen, check the S17 Notices box to see if the Annual Declaration
has been issued
- If the Annual Declaration has not been
issued, do not stop the payments. Instead
-
Follow the guidance in
Calculating And
Scheduling Manual Payments In TCO
-
Pass the case with the relevant details to your
Technical Advice Line Liaison Officer (TALLO) for them to contact
the Technical Advice Line (TAL) to raise an Extended Action Request
System (EARS) enquiry, to identify why the Annual Declaration has
not been issued
Note: If an EARS has already been raised previously, the
TALLO should request a progress report from the Technical Advice
Line
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Use Function MAINTAIN HOUSEHOLD NOTES and select
the 'Renewals & Reminders' category to record the action you
have taken
Notes:
You must follow the guidance in
How To
Correctly Complete Application And Household Notes when you
record the note
And also
Follow the guidance in
Maintain Household
Notes
- If the Annual Declaration has been issued,
go to step
5
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| 5 | On the Current Position screen, click on the
[View Signals] button
-
If the 'Terminated' signal is set, the manual
payments must be stopped. Go to step 7
-
If the 'Terminated' signal is not set or the
[View Signals] button is disabled, go to step 6
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| 6 | On the Current Position
screen
- Click on the Annual Declaration in the S17
Notices box to highlight it
- Click on the [Details] button. You will be
taken to the S17 Notice Issue screen
- Look at the 1SD date shown in the Key
Dates box
- If the date has passed, go to step 7
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Stop manual payments
| 7 | Note: Do not make any manual payments
- On the Manual Payments database, enter
today’s date in the Date Closed field
- Use Function MAINTAIN HOUSEHOLD NOTES and
select the ‘Renewals & Reminders’ category to
record the following
'TCMZ Man pyts stopped as a result of 1SD renewals processing.
If a restore request is received, and after following Restore A
Terminated Renewal guidance the claim is eligible for restore,
refer the case to the Manual Payments Team stating that the claim
is eligible for restore'
Notes:
You must follow the guidance in
How To
Correctly Complete Application And Household Notes when you
record the note
And also
Follow the guidance in
Maintain Household
Notes
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Continue manual payments
Action the restore request
| 9 | Manual payments should be
reinstated from the date the claimant was last paid up to
- On the Manual Payments database, remove
the date in the Date Closed field
- Click on the Calculation sheet tab
Then
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