Web-Based Special Payroll Processing System (SPPS Web)

Updating Cash Award/Special Bonus Details

This topic has been updated to add new valid values for BETC: DISBCA, DISBBCA, DISGF, and DISNGF.

Cash awards and special bonuses are monetary recognitions used to promote organizational and team goals and objectives. The awards can be given to an individual employee or group of employees. The awards are based on the following predetermined criteria:

• Productivity standards
• Performance goals
• Contributions
• Measurements systems
• Award formulas
• Pay out schedules

The following types of awards and bonuses are processed in SPPS Web Web-based Special Payroll Processing System:

• Superior performance
• Special act or service
• Employee suggestion
• Senior Executive Service (SES) bonus
• Presidential award
• Separation incentive
• Cash award
• Performance bonus
• Incentive pay
• Travel incentive
• Gift certificates

Note: Spot awards are not processed in SPPS Web Web-based Special Payroll Processing System.

For descriptions of the types of cash awards and special bonuses that are processed in SPPS Web Web-based Special Payroll Processing System, see the Types of Awards Table.

Note: SF 50 B, Notification of Personnel Action, is not system generated when a cash award and/or special bonus action is processed.

For more information about awards, see:

• Title 5, USC 4502
• Department of Defense (DoD) 1400.25-M
• IRIS Information/Research Inquiry System Program IR142, Awards

To Update Cash Award/Special Bonus Details:

1. Search for the related transaction using the instructions under Searching for Record Details. The Adjustment List page is displayed showing all transactions for the specified employee.

   Note: If the search does not return the specified transaction, the transaction must be established in the system before the payment or adjustment record can be processed.

2. Select the SSN Social Security number for the transaction that is to be adjusted by double clicking the selected SSN. The Cash Awards/Special Bonus page is displayed.

   

3. Complete the applicable fields on the Cash Awards/Special Bonus Page.

   Note: Accounting must validate against MASC Management Account Structure Codes System if stored accounting is to be used. Select Copy to copy stored accounting information from one pay period record to the pay period record being processed.

   Prefix

   TC

   Suffix

   Type of Award

   Acct

   Stored Accounting

   BETC

   Gross Amount

   Net Amount

4. After completing all functions, select Save to apply all changes and update the record.

   OR

   Select any Tab to cancel the action and return to a previous page.