The PAS works as follows:
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1.
Receives monthly earnings files containing earnings and IRWE from Abt;
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2.
Calculates monthly offset amount using earnings files from the contractor;
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3.
Deducts offset amount from the POD participant’s corresponding Monthly Benefit Amount
(MBA);
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4.
Creates a manual adjustment credit and award process (MADCAP) action that updates
the Master Beneficiary Record (MBR);
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5.
Provides universal text indicator (UTI) information as part of the MADCAP action;
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6.
Creates (after the previous action) a special message on the MBR indicating that this
is a POD beneficiary; and
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7.
Adds the “DP” demonstration code and the start and end date of participation to the
HISTDEMO field on the MBR.
NOTE: If PAS cannot process the case, it generates processing edits or processing limitations
and alerts that the POD unit in the PC of jurisdiction will process. If a case edits,
the PAS will still update the database with offset information, monthly benefit amounts,
and other data needed to perform the offset calculation so automation can occur in
the future. If this information fails to update into the database, a 100 level edit
will generate to Paperless.