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GA PSERS Report

Overview 

This application allows a user site to produce psers reports for Georgia State.  

Before you can generate reports, you must access the reporting interface as described in the table below to set up the data required to create these reports. 

Step 

Click  

Action 

  1.  

Site Profile  

To configure the details about the site. 

  1.  

Setup  

To configure the pay base accumulator values. 

These accumulator values are used for calculating the retirement fields for employees and are required to generate the submission file. 

  1.  

Report Instance  

To create an instance of a report, after the pre-requisite data has been configured as described in steps 1 and 2.  

You will create  

  • A report instance for a month and year. 

  • A submission file for each instance of the report 

  1.  

Load Process  

 To load the psers information into maintenance tables. 

  1.  

Maintenance  

To add/update the data that is loaded in the maintenance tables. 

  1.  

Submission Process  

To generate a submission file or view report based on the information stored in the maintenance tables. 

Report Frequency 

Selection Criteria 

Setup 

Before a report can be generated, the reporting interface must be accessed and necessary data set up completed.  This configuration information is used by the Load and Submission processes. 

 The following options need to be configured under ‘Setup’ menu:   

  • Site Profile 

  • Crosswalk 

  • Code Value 

  • Additional Setup  

Site Profile 

Click Site Profile in the GA PSERS window.  

To add details about a site’s profile, enter data in the fields of this window as described in the table below.  

Field 

Description 

Entity ID * 

Enter the unique ID of the entity. 

You can use alpha numeric characters, spaces & underscore only, to compose the Entity ID. 

Note: Once the site is added, the ‘Entity ID’ cannot be edited. 

Employer Name* 

 Name of the employer. 

Employer Address* 

 First line of the employer address. 

Employer Address(2) 

 Rest of the address. 

Employer City* 

 City in which the employer is located. 

Employer State* 

 State in which the employer is located.  

Select from the ‘Employer State’ drop-down list. 

Employer Zip Code* 

Numeric zip code of the employer’s location. 

This field accepts only five numeric characters and does not accept if all the five characters are zeroes.  

Example: ‘00000’ is an invalid zip code 

Employer Code* 

Code of Employer 

A unique System number identifying the employer 

Crosswalk 

The Crosswalk tab can be used to map the setup values.  The predefined Code Items appear as a list when the ‘Crosswalk’ screen is loaded.    

Code Value 

Click Code Value to define valid codes.    

Additional Setup 

Click Additional Setup in GA PSERS window to enter additional PSERS Setup information.  

To add the pay base accumulators for calculating the retirement fields for employees associated with a site, enter data in the fields of this window as described in the table below.  

Field 

Description 

Entity ID * 

Enter Entity ID as defined in ‘Site Profile’ screen. 

 

Retirement Pay Base* 

Enter the accumulator value for calculating the Contribution Salary. 

The default value is 6007.  

PSE Employee Contribution(s) 

 

TRS Employee Contribution(s) 

 

Valid values for the accumulators are in the range of 1000 - 9999 

Instance 

Click Instance in the GA PSERS window to configure an instance of the report. 

To add report instances, enter data in the fields of this page as described in the table below.  

You can configure report instances for a period. A period is a combination of a year and month for which the extract is required. 

Field 

Description 

Name * 

Name of the report instance as defined by the user. 

Year*  

Year for which submission is required.  

Month* 

Month for which submission is required.  

 

  • After a report instance is created and saved, the ‘year’ and ‘month’ cannot be changed. 

  • After a ‘Load’ job is performed on a report instance, the report instance cannot be deleted. 

Load 

Click Load in the GA PSERS window to extract the employee records into the maintenance table. 

 To load data from an instance of a report enter data in the fields of this window as described in the table below. 

Field/Button 

Description 

Report Instance * 

Click for the list of report instances. Select the one for which you wish to perform a load. 

Notes  

Enter a note related to the action you are about to perform on the report instance.  

Entity ID* 

Click to select the specific entity whose data you wish to extract. Select ‘ALL’ to extract records of all entities.  

Check Status* 

Check Status whether an employee is “Paid”, “Unpaid” or both 

Purge Existing Data 

Select this if you wish to delete, all existing records for the report instance from the maintenance table and load currently extracted records into the table.  

This action would also remove new records added using the maintenance screen. 

 Load (Button)

Click to load employee records into the maintenance table. 

The selected report instance details appear as described in the following table.  

Field 

Description 

Report Instance Details 

The period (year and month) for the selected report instance. 

Last Load for the Selected Report Instance 

The date when the selected report instance was last loaded and the note that was entered. 

If the report is being loaded for the first time, this would be empty.  

To view details of report instances in the ‘maintenance view’ the ‘load’ operation must be completed for an instance. 

Maintenance 

Click Maintenance in the GA PSERS window to view and change data in the maintenance table.  

 The report instances drop-down list displays only those instances for which the ‘load’ operation is complete.  

 You can: 

  • Make changes to data extracted from the report instance into the maintenance table. 

  • Add new records, delete existing records 

  • Correct errors in data resulting from the extraction process 

 To make changes to data, use the options in this window as described in the following tables. 

Select report or specific records 

Field 

Description  

Report Instance  

 Click to select a specific instance. 

Filter by Criteria 

 

Employee Id 

  

Employee last name 

 

Total record Count 

 

 Save changes before attempting to: 

  • ‘insert’ or ‘delete’ records  

  • sort or filter data 

  • use options to navigate to any other window 

Double-click the record in the maintenance table to edit it.  

Insert, Edit, Reset and Save Records  

Button 

Description  

  Delete (Button)

To delete a record from the maintenance table.   Only one record can be deleted at any point of time. 

 Save (Button)

To save changes to  records in the maintenance table.  

 Reset (Button)

 To undo all changes made to the records. 

 Insert (Button)

To insert a new record into the maintenance table.  Add employee details in the pop-up window. 

 

 View All Records (Button)

To view all records 

 New ‘Employee Id’ & ‘Entity’ should be unique and not match any existing combination for the selected report instance 

Insert Records  

Field 

Description  

Employee ID* 

Id of the Employee 

Entity ID* 

Entity ID 

SSN* 

SSN of the Employee 

Posting Month* 

The Month and Year of the report (YYYYMM) 

Contribution Salary* 

Represents the Members Contribution Salary 

EECOn Amount* 

Represents the Post-Tax portion of EECON if applicable.  

Prefix 

Employee's Prefix 

Employee First Name* 

First Name of the Employee 

Employee Middle Name 

Middle Name of the Employee 

Employee Last Name* 

Last Name of the Employee 

Suffix 

Employee's Suffix 

Date Of Birth 

Employee's Birth Date 

Gender* 

Employee’s Gender (M/F) 

Address Line 1* 

Employee's Primary Address Line 

 

Secondary Line 2 

Employee's Secondary Address Line 

 

City 

Employee's Residence City 

 

State 

Employee's Residence State 

 

Zip Code 

Employee's Residence Zip Code 

 

Local Employee Number* 

Employee ID 

 

Termination Date 

Represents date member terminated employment or changed pension plan. 

Termination Reason 

One of the Codes as given below: 

00 =Contribution Group/ Pension Plan Change 

 01 = Retirement 

 02 = Death 

 03 = Other 

 04 = Transfer 

Employer Code* 

Employer code 

Eligibility Date* 

YYYYMMDD - Day employee becomes eligible to be reported 

Job Classification* 

One of the Codes as given below: 

01 = Engineering / Technology Support 

02 = Facilities / Materials / Equipment 

04 = Food Services / Farm Services 

05 = General Support Services 

12 =Public Safety /Corrections /Investigation 

16 = Transportation 

17 = Unspecified 

Payroll Frequency* 

One of the Codes as given below: 

00 = Monthly  

 01 = Semi-Monthly  

 02 = Bi-Weekly 

 03 = Weekly 

Payment Reason* 

One of the Codes as given below: 

00 = Regular Pay  

01 = Leave Without Pay 

02 = Military Leave Without Pay  

03 = Pay Decrease Demotion / Position Downgrade 

04 = Pay Increase Promotion / Step Increase / Position upgrade/Interim Position/Conditional Pay 

Percent Time 

Represents the Percent Time worked 

Error Log Viewer 

At the bottom of this window there are error messages displayed which are logged during the execution of the load or the submission process. 

To view the logged messages, use the options in this window as described in the below table. 

Field 

Description  

Error Log By Last   

 Click to select a Load or Submission 

Errors include invalid/missing mandatory field values.  

Correct them by selecting: 

  • the employee record from the error log and  

  • the ‘Filter Selected Record’ check-box.  

The invalid employee record appears in the maintenance table.  Make corrections and save the record. 

  • ‘Employee Id’ & ‘Entity’ should be unique for the selected report instance. 

Submission 

Click Submission in the GA PSERS window to create the file that would be submitted to the state.  

To create a report file for submission to the state, enter data in the fields of this window as described in the table below.  

Field/Button 

Description 

Report Instance * 

The report instance (report name as defined by the user) which is to be submitted. 

Notes  

Any notes entered by the user for submission.  

File Name* 

Auto generated File name for the submission file. The format is Year and month from report definition, employer code from site profile with extension as PRSGA. E.g. if the Year is 2010 , month is 03 and Employer code is 458945 then file name is 201003458945.PRSGA 

Entity ID* 

Specific entity for which submission should happen. If employees of all the entities are to be submitted, select ‘ALL’. 

Report Definition Details 

Displays the period (year and month) for the selected report instance. 

Last Submission for the Selected Report Definition 

Displays details of the last submission job performed on the selected report instance. If this is the first submission job, this section is blank. 

File Name 

Displays the name of the file generated on the server after the User clicks on the Generate Report button. Also it gives an option for the user to download the file from the server to the client machine by clicking on the file name.  

 Generate Report (Button)

Create report file with data from maintenance table for submission to the state. 

 View Report (Button)

View the submission file report. 

Only if the ‘Load’ is performed on the report instance, the report instance will appear on the ‘Report Instance’ dropdown list 

Submission file layout 

The format used to report retirement data for an employee is specified below.  

Header Record 

Field 

Position 

Format 

Length 

Column 

1* 

1-20 

Record Type 

2* 

21-32 

Format Version 

3* 

33-44 

Employer Code 

4* 

45-53 

Plan 

5* 

54 - 56  

A/N 

Report Month 

6* 

57 

Date 

File Creation Date 

7* 

58 

481 

Filler 

 Details Record 

Field 

Position 

Format 

Length 

Column 

1* 

1-1 

Record Type 

2* 

2-7 

A/N 

Posting Month 

3* 

8-16 

A/N 

SSN 

4* 

17-24 

A/N 

Employer Code 

5* 

25-28 

Contribution Group 

6* 

29-36 

Date 

Eligibility Date 

7* 

37-38 

A/N 

Job Classification 

8* 

39-40 

A/N 

Payroll Frequency 

9* 

41-42 

A/N 

Payment Reason 

10 

43-43 

Filler 

11* 

44-44 

Percent Time Sign 

12* 

45-50 

A/N 

Percent Time 

13* 

51-51 

Salary Sign 

14* 

52-60 

A/N 

Contribution Salary 

15 

61-70 

10 

filler 

16* 

71-71 

EECON Sign 

17* 

72-80 

A/N 

EECON Amount 

18 

81-120 

40 

Filler 

19 

121-128 

Date 

Termination Date 

20 

129-130 

A/N 

Termination Reason 

21* 

131-138 

Date 

Date of Birth 

22* 

139-139 

Gender 

23 

140-143 

Prefix 

24* 

144-173 

30 

First Name 

25 

174-203 

30 

Middle Name 

26* 

204-233 

30 

Last Name 

27 

234-243 

10 

Suffix 

28* 

244-278 

35 

Primary Address 

29 

279-313 

35 

Secondary Address 

30 

314-343 

30 

City 

31 

344-345 

State 

32 

346-354 

A/N 

Zip Code 

33 

355-355 

International Address Flag 

34* 

356-405 

50 

International Address 

35* 

406-420 

A/N 

15 

Local Employee Number 

36 

421-512 

91 

Filler 

Trailer Record 

Field 

Position 

Format 

Length 

Column 

1* 

1-1 

Record Type 

2* 

2-9 

A/N 

Employer Code 

3* 

10-12 

A/N 

Plan 

4* 

13-18 

A/N 

Report Month 

5* 

19-24 

A/N 

Record Count 

6* 

25-38 

13 

Filler 

7* 

39-39 

Total Contribution sign 

8* 

40-52 

A/N 

13 

Total contribution   

9* 

53-53 

EECON Sign 

10* 

54-66 

A/N 

13 

Total EECON 

11* 

67-80 

13 

Filler 

12* 

81-88 

Date 

File Creation Date 

13* 

89-512 

 

Filler 

Data Types 

A/N - Alpha Numeric, left justified, and blank. N - Numeric, right justified, zero, unsigned without decimal point, cents, and dollars. A – Alphabetic, left justified, and blank. Date – Datetime, left  

Record Length: 512  

About 

The About screen displays system level information about the report such as the version, report name and database details. 

 

 

 

 

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