To process a Recruitment, Relocation, or Retention Incentive:You can authorize Recruitment (NOAC 815), Relocation (NOAC 816), or Retention (NOAC 827) incentive grants for employees and capture information such as:
Payment options, payment types, and payment dates
Service obligation dates
Annual review dates for Retention incentives
If an employee separates, you determine whether to authorize any part of the incentive already paid or pending, and then cancel or reprocess the action accordingly.
See: Incentive Payment Actions
Use the RPA window.
To process a Recruitment, Relocation, or Retention Incentive:Initiate an incentive RPA: Recruitment (NOAC 815), Relocation (NOAC 816), or Retention (827).
On the Requesting Info tab, enter the effective date, employee's name, the nature of action code, and the legal authority code.
On the Position Data tab, click the Total Salary field to display the Incentive window.
Select a Payment Option.
In the Incentive region, select a payment category.
The payment option you selected previously determines the choice of payment categories.
For Relocation and Recruitment incentives, enter an amount and payment date.
If you are processing a biweekly payment, enter the date the last payment occurs.
For Retention Incentives, enter a percentage of the earned pay and the payment date.
If you are processing a biweekly payment, with a service obligation, enter the date the last payment occurs. Biweekly payments without a service obligation do not require an end date because they are on-going payments.
For Relocation and Recruitment incentives, add the total of all the biweekly payments to the Total Amount field.
The application does not automatically calculate the biweekly payments, but does automatically calculate the total for the lump sum and installment amounts. Enter the total for the biweekly payments or revise the existing total to include the biweekly total.
Save your work.
You must complete the information in the Incentives window before you can save or route the RPA.
Click Extra Information and complete the RPA EIT information:
For incentives that involve a service agreement, complete the RPA EIT US Federal Service Obligation.
For ongoing biweekly Retention Incentives (no payment end date entered in the Incentives window), enter an annual review date in the RPA EIT US Federal Retention Incentive.
Complete, route, approve, and update the action according to your agency's practices.
After you update the RPA, the NPA displays the Recruitment or Relocation amount or the Retention percent in the Total Salary field. The Remarks section includes details about the payments, such as the payment amounts and payment dates. The application creates recurring and non-recurring assignment elements based on the type of payment categories you authorized.
The resulting incentive payments are listed as supplementary earnings in self-service. Managers and employees with access to self-service can view these earnings.
You can correct the NPA, but only the incentive amount or percentage, not the payment type or dates. (You must cancel the original RPA action and process a new action.) The NPA does not include service obligation information, so you can correct that information directly in the Person US Federal Service Obligation EIT.
To terminate a Retention Incentive:Initiate a Retention NOAC 827 action for the employee.
On the RPA Requesting Info tab, enter the effective date, the employee's name, the 827 nature of action code, and the Legal Authority Code.
On the Position Data tab, place your cursor in the Total Salary (block 20) field to open the Incentives window.
Select Payment Option B, Biweekly Payments.
The application automatically populates 0 (zero) in the Total Amount field of the Incentives window.
Save your work.
Complete, approve, and update the action according to your agency's practices.
The existing Retention Incentive Assignment Element is end-dated with the effective date of the RPA.