Benefit Pay Instruction

BenefitPayInstruction [Schema]

Name	Type	Required	Description
Code	SystemCode	yes	The code that represents the benefit type and it' treatment.
TotalCost	Money	yes	The total cost (or value) of the benefit for the remainder of the financial year.
EmployeeContribution	Money	yes	The amount the employee contributes towards the benefit for the rest of the financial year.
CashEquivalent	Money	no	The per period cash equivalent value of the benefit. [Optional] used to override the calculated cash equivilent value.
AccountingMethod	BenefitAccountingMethod	yes	The accounting method used to report the benefit to HMRC.
BenefitEndDate	xsd:date	no	The date benefit ceases, this is different to end date of the instruction.

Interits from: PayInstruction[Schema]

See Understanding Pay Instructions for more information on how pay instructions can be used.

Name	Type	Required	Description
StartDate	xsd:date	yes	The date the instruction will come into effect.
EndDate	xsd:date	no	The date the instruction will end, open ended instructions will run forever.
Description	xsd:string ( max: 200)	no	The pay line descripton override; this description will override the default description from the pay code. See Customising the Payslip for more information on customising the payslip output and using runtime variables.
PayLineTag	xsd:string ( max: 100)	no	If specified, the PayLineTag value is used to decorate all child pay lines generated by the instruction.

Example

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<BenefitPayInstruction xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <StartDate>2021-01-26</StartDate>
  <EndDate>2021-01-26</EndDate>
  <Description>string</Description>
  <PayLineTag>string</PayLineTag>
  <Code>string</Code>
  <TotalCost>123.99</TotalCost>
  <EmployeeContribution>123.99</EmployeeContribution>
  <CashEquivalent>123.99</CashEquivalent>
  <AccountingMethod>P11D</AccountingMethod>
  <BenefitEndDate>2021-01-26</BenefitEndDate>
</BenefitPayInstruction>

{
  "BenefitPayInstruction": {
    "StartDate": "2021-01-26",
    "EndDate": "2021-01-26",
    "Description": "string",
    "PayLineTag": "string",
    "Code": "string",
    "TotalCost": "123.99",
    "EmployeeContribution": "123.99",
    "CashEquivalent": "123.99",
    "AccountingMethod": "P11D",
    "BenefitEndDate": "2021-01-26"
  }
}