Release Notes 8.060.0

Livestock: With TFS #97957, a new print option was added to the various Livestock Schedule of Insurance (SOI) forms to allow users to include Policy Provisions when the forms are printed. With this ticket, the SPOIs, Policy Provisions, and Endorsements that print in conjunction with the new print option have been added to the System. The Basic Provisions, CEE Endorsement, Commodity Provisions, and Special Provisions (SPOIs) will print based on the applicable Crop Year, insurance plan, and commodity code with the following SOI forms for all Livestock Plans:

Livestock: With this ticket, a new print option has been added to the various Livestock Schedule of Insurance (SOI) forms to allow users to include Policy Provisions when the forms are printed. The changes called out on this ticket will be applicable to all Schedule of Insurance forms for all Livestock Plans:

This new print option will default to the "No provisions" option. The user can choose the "All provisions" option, which if selected, will print the Basic Provisions, CEE Endorsement, Commodity Provisions, and Special Provisions based on the applicable Crop Year, insurance plan, and commodity code (if applicable).

NOTE: TFS #111179 added the Policy Provisions and SPOIs for Livestock Plans (LRP, LGM, and DRP) to the System.

WFRP: It was noticed during the 2020 WFRP Handbook review that the Certification Statement printing on the WFRP Expected Value and Yield Source Document Certification Worksheet was printing the Farm Op Report Certification Statement. This has been corrected.

WFRP: RMA issued a 2020 WFRP Handbook which had some changes to the WFRP History Report that is a part of the WFRP Combo Form. MCT also found an update was needed to the Conditions of Acceptance section.

Native Sod: RMA has updated to the Native Sod Statement in the DSSH released on November 26, 2019. With this ticket, the Annual Forage Acreage Report and other Acreage Reporting forms have been updated in the following ways for all years:

The Conservation Compliance Certification form has been updated in the following ways for all years:

ProAg requested the "Potential Loss Estimator Worksheet" on their MPCI Print menu , be changed to "Potential Loss Estimator and Annual Production Report" which includes the Statement and Signature pages. The Potential Loss Estimator available for plan codes RP (02) and RPHPE (03) only to help agents estimate what the final harvest price will be when the form is printed to give the grower an idea of what a potential revenue loss could be. Potential revenue guarantees are calculated using the policy’s yields and the agent’s estimated values.

If the form is printed after the harvest price is issued by RMA, all estimates use the RMA harvest price in the calculations, regardless of what estimates are entered by the agent. The intent is to give the agents a marketing tool to up-sell YP policies to RP when they are collecting production before the SCD.

Schedule of Insurance/SOI-PR: It was reported that not all uninsurable acres were being included the uninsurable acres field that prints in parentheses in the Total Acres field in the Schedule of Insurance (SOI)'s Crop Summary for the coverage. With this ticket, the rules for printing UI acres were updated for all years.

It was reported that the Confirmation of Coverage form for RPowerD and MPowerD polices was printing the incorrect crop types. This ticket updated the logic to ensure the crop type data is pulled from the policy detail line and prefills with the correct crop type data.

Policy Change Form: A couple of clean up items were found around the printing of Crop Year data on the 2+ pages for the Policy Change Form and were performed with this ticket for all Crop Years and formats – API / PRF format and non-API / PRF format.

Fast Edit PR: An issue was reported that the user was unable to key production in Fast Edit PR for the Current Year Production Reporting grid. The policy had both planted and PP acres in 2019. The Fast Edit PR page was displaying the planted acres, but the agent and CIS were unable to enter production because the fields were locked due to a claim. The only claim that had been paid on the policy was for PP acres, and they were paid at 100%. Even though there were PP and planted acres, the user should have still been able to key production on the planted acres in Fast Edit PR.

A change was implemented in Fast Edit PR so that, in this scenario, the System will no longer lock the planted acres detail line and make the production/acres field non-editable.

MCEU: As part of the MCEU functionality, if the necessary primary/secondary county designations have not been made, the System bypasses all enterprise unit validation logic and triggers a suspension to notify the AIP of the missing primary/secondary county designations. AIPs were reporting a number of scenarios where they are unable to make the necessary primary/secondary county designations. In most scenarios, AIPs could not apply an override for the applicable unit structure when the primary/secondary county designations could not be made. However, in the scenario of zero acres, AIPs requested the System automatically remove the MC unit structure if zero acres have been processed but the primary/secondary county designations have not been made. With this ticket, the MCEU logic has been updated to remove the MC unit structure at mark complete if zero acres have been processed and AR Sign Dates have been keyed but the necessary primary/secondary county designations have not been made.

Written Agreements: In TFS #64301, changes were implemented to exclude crops where Written Agreements were not allowed per the crop provisions, so these crops were not allowed to have a Written Agreement keyed within the Add New Written Agreement, Add New Policy, and Add New Coverage pages.

With this ticket, the logic that was added to exclude the crops/plans listed below was removed and was instead updated to now include the listed crops/plans and allow them to be selected from the dropdowns within the Add New Written Agreement, Add New Policy, and Add New Coverage pages. If one of the listed crops/plans is elected, then the user will receive the following warning, which is no longer a hard stop, upon save of these pages: "Availability of a written agreement for this state/county/crop/plan must be verified with the AIP."

CROPS:

PLANS:

Native Sod: For the 2020+ Reinsurance Years, Native Sod is now insurable in the initial years under the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) policy in the following states: Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Native Sod was allowed on Annual Forage in these states under Plan 13 in previous years, and therefore, a majority of System functionality for Native Sod is already in place to handle the addition of PRF.

Native Sod under Plan 13 is driven off of two things. First, a Native Sod Written Agreement needs to be added for the coverage and applicable detail lines. Previously, users could establish the Native Sod Written Agreements for Plan 13 commodities but did not have the ability to link them to specific detail lines as the page only loaded detail lines with a Procedure Code of "D". Procedure Codes are not applicable for Plan 13 commodities, though. Therefore, the logic was updated so that, if the Plan is 13, the System will only display detail lines where the Native Sod checkbox has been selected on the Add/Maintain Detail Line pages.

The second piece that drives the premium rating is the Native Sod checkbox mentioned above on the Add and Maintain Detail Line pages. Once the checkbox is selected by the user, the System will then know that Native Sod procedures apply and will accordingly reduce the subsidy and reduce the Productivity Factor down to 65%. The Native Sod checkbox is already in place for Annual Forage but was added for PRF going forward. The Native Sod checkbox will also be utilized for the Written Agreement functionality called out above.

NOTE: When Native Sod applies to Annual Forage or PRF, the user will need to create a detail line for the Native Sod with the total acres equal to the Native Sod acreage and a detail line for the non-Native Sod acreage with the total non-Native Sod acreage.

NOTE: TFS #106496 will be handling the new N8 Program Indicator Code for Native Sod for the 2020+ RYs.

WFRP: As part of the 2020 WFRP policy updates, RMA has issued three new options for Revenue Cup (RC), Revenue Substitution (RS), and Revenue Exclusion (RX). As part of these new option codes, the WFRP Plan 76 premium calculation was updated. With this ticket, updates were made to the rating logic for WFRP to account for the RC, RS, and RX options.

A 2019 ICE update was made available by the RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following tables have been updated for 2019:

A 2020 ICE update was made available by the RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following tables have been updated for 2020:

A 2019 ICE update was made available by the RMA and has been implemented in the System. The following tables have been updated for 2019: