Clients have requested the ability to remit ACH payments for payroll deductions (i.e child support) to States. Apparently, there are extended specifications for remittance fo child support payments. The existing AP ACH is currently not able to create a file acceptable to the States.

VI. Child Support Application Banking Convention
Within the 80 position Payment Related Information Field of the CCD+ Addenda Record,
remittance information corresponding to the child support payment made by an employer to an
SDU is presented in the following banking convention. This convention is referred to as the ‘DED’
Deduction data segment under ASC X12 syntax and is composed of ten fields:
• Segment Identifier
• Application Identifier
• Case Identifier
• Pay Date
• Payment Amount
• Non-Custodial Parent Social Security Number
• Medical Support Indicator
• Non-Custodial Parent Name
• FIPS Code
• Employment Termination Indicator
Each field is referred to as a data element, which is the smallest named item in a record. It can
represent a qualifier, a value, or text. A data element has three primary attributes - length, field
requirement, and type. Each data element is identified by an element identifier used for reference
(e.g., DED01, DED02, etc.), and each element has a specific position within the record (segment).
In constructing the segment, each data element is preceded by the separator character. In the ACH,
the data element separator is an asterisk (‘*’). Each segment must end with a terminator, which in
the ACH is a backslash (‘\’).
The following is an example of the DED segment as used in the Payment Related Information field
of the CCD+ Addenda Record:
DED*application identifier*case identifier*pay date*payment amount*noncustodial
parent ssn*medical support indicator*non-custodial parent name*FIPS
code*employment termination indicator\
Note the use of the asterisk (‘*’) and backslash (‘\’).

by: Barry P. | over a year ago | Financial Management