Resource: List of Census Scrubbing Errors

The following is a list of criteria for errors and warnings that are generated on the Employees step of Data Collection when Enable Census Scrubbing on PSL is enabled in PSL Preferences.

 

IssueMessage
First Name and/or Last Name are blankError: First Name and Last Name fields are required
Participant Age is less than than the Minimum Age Preference valueWarning: In most cases, age should not be under [Minimum Age Preference value]
Participant Age is greater than the Maximum Age Preference valueWarning: In most cases, age should not be greater than [Maximum Age Preference value]
Social Security Number is present more than once in the census dataError: Duplicate SSN
Required fields (based on Collection Field rules) are blankError: [Collection Field Name] is required
Hire Date is prior to the Birth DateError: Hire Date cannot be before Birth Date
Hire Date is later than the Termination DateError: Termination Date cannot be before Hire Date
Termination Date is prior to the Project Period Start dateWarning: Termination Date is before the start of the current Plan Year
Termination Date is later than the Project Period End dateWarning: Termination Date is after the end of the current Plan Year
Employee does not have a Date of Rehire despite a Termination Date listed on a previous census Warning: Date of Termination exists in a prior Period End, the current submission must include a Date of Rehire.
Hours is blank or set to 0Warning: In most cases, hours of service cannot be zero
Hours is a negative valueError: Hours can not be negative.
Compensation is blank or set to 0Warning: Compensation should not be zero unless there is a Termination Date
The sum of Pre-Tax Salary Deferral, Roth Salary Deferral, Mandatory Employee Deferral, and Salary 457 Deferral is 0 for every employeeWarning: In most cases, at least one employee will have deferrals
The sum of Pre-Tax Salary Deferral, Roth Salary Deferral, Mandatory Employee Deferral, and Salary 457 Deferral is greater than 0 for every employeeWarning: In most cases, not all employees will have deferrals
Issues identified by census scrubbing and the messages displayed when detected