PAYE62040 - employment maintenance: employment changes: how to look at or amend a P204
Any one with the appropriate access can use Function MA to
view or amend a P204 record.
There are 2 Formats used to view / amend a P204 record
- Prime Format – Used to start the function
- Format 3 – To show you the P204 record and let you make changes
You can only make or amend entries in those fields that are not protected. In normal cases these are
- The new employment details fields
- The intervening district field
You cannot make or amend entries for
- The address field
- The old employment details
- Any P45(1) details for your employment
The exceptions are
- Some of the new employment fields are protected where the P204 record was set up following a bulk scheme transfer
- If you know that the address shown is RLS do not enter the RLS signal on the TBS record using TBS Function AMEND TAXPAYER ADDRESS until the record is received
You may also see the following messages which tell you
- RECORD REQUESTED ON….
- The date Function MA was originally used
- RE – TRY REQUESTED ON….
- The date the RE – TRY facility was first used. When RE – TRY has been used more than once the date shown will always be the date of the latest attempt
- BULK SCHEME TRANSFER Y
- The P204 record was created because the main record could not be transferred when the bulk transfer of the scheme was done
