Changes to CPF e-Submission Files

As always, SimplePay strives to keep you compliant with the legislative and regulatory requirements of statutory bodies. Even when the changes may not be visible to the user, you can rest assured that we’re keeping on top of any changes and are updating the system accordingly.

With that said, the CPF Board recently implemented two changes for the FTP files for CPF Returns as from 1 January 2022:

• The character limit for the employee name field has been increased from 22 characters to 66 characters so that the full name of employees can be displayed. This change does not impact your actions or experience on the system, but simply the amount of characters that we extract from the Basic Info page. We’ve already made the necessary adjustments to ensure that all files generated before 1 January 2022 will still be limited to 22 characters, while all files after this date will allow up to 66 characters. This change does not impact your experience with the system.
• It will be mandatory to show the ordinary wage (OW) and additional wage (AW) amounts for employees. SimplePay already meets this requirement by automatically generating these for you based on the system item chosen or the inputs that you enter when creating a custom item.

As you can see, being a SimplePay user means that you don’t have to worry about any of these amendments as we’ve already taken care of it for you well in advance.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Team SimplePay