Reporting benefits payment data

Report the pensions, and benefits you have paid to the Incomes Register by filling in the benefits payment report.

What is benefits payment data and what data do I need to submit a benefits payment report?

When should data be reported?

Data about a single payment made to a single income earner is reported using a single benefits payment report.

Confirm the reporting of benefits payment data

Before you can submit benefits paid by your organisation to the Incomes Register, a representative of your organisation must confirm the organisation as the reporter of the benefit payments data. This only needs to be done once.

Make a confirmation only if your organisation pays pensions, benefits or daily allowances for non-military service. Do not make the confirmation just to be on the safe side.

How to confirm an organisation as the reporter of the benefit payments data?

Submit reports in electronic format

You can report data in the Incomes Register’s e-service or transfer reports directly from your payment system via an API. It is not possible to report any pension or benefit data using a paper form.

Read more about the reporting channels

Submit a separate report for each individual and payment. Use the income types given for pensions and benefits.

Several different income types of a single income earner can be reported using a single benefits payment report if the benefits share the same payment date. Also report amounts deducted from the income using income types.

Read more about the income types of benefits

Correcting reports

If there are errors in the data you have reported, correct the data. Errors are always corrected by the payer. The Incomes Register or the income earner cannot correct the data for you.

How do I correct data?