11 code 131 small wages without employment check
Small Wages without Employment Check - Code 131 - Micro Edit Version
This is the counterpart to the Code 130 edit just described, looking for accounts with a note-worthy level of wages paid, but showing no employees to receive these wages. An account is flagged by this edit if it has zero employment in all three months of the processed quarter and has total wages exceeding the amount specified by the Lookup File PK007 parameter. Should the account be noted in the edit report, it will flag the total wages as the likely culprit. This wage flagging may be arbitrary and without justification, since it could just as easily be that the employment was inestimable due to a lack of historical data.
Note: If the wages exceed PK007 x PK059 (i.e., the normal limit times the big-edit wage multiplier, normally set to 3), then the Code 094 edit will be flagged instead of Code 131.
As an employment/wage-related edit exception, this edit entitles the flagged account to be listed in the integrated portion of the edit report (Job 242D only) when its macro record is flagged. This does not necessarily need to be for this same type of edit exception. Indeed, the presence of wages without employment bypasses the standard AQW change edit (Code 092/127) at the micro level, but could be flagged in the macro-level AQW checking due to values getting significantly skewed by the absence of employment in some of the units. This is a “gross” error for high-wage employers. BLS classification: A.1.6 or B.1.7, based on wage magnitude. EXPO “G” code: A131 or B131.
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