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1H 2025 Edit
Deprecation of Pension Related Fields
General Availability Required Automatically On Impact: High AI Enriched
Description

The Pension related fields in benefit objects have reached End of Development on May 17, 2024 and will be Deleted on May 14, 2027. After this date, the Story reports, APIs, Business Rules, and Integrations that refer to such fields will stop working. We have moved these fields into new benefit objects.See More

Detailed Description

The Pension-related fields previously in the Benefit object have been moved to new dedicated objects (such as PensionBenefitDetails) to prevent performance issues from storing all benefit types in a single object. The old pension fields have reached End of Development on May 17, 2024 and will be deleted on May 14, 2027. Both old and new API paths and Story reports referencing old and new objects will work until the deletion date.

Impact Assessment

All Story reports, Business Rules, and Integrations that reference pension-related fields from the old Benefit object will stop working after May 14, 2027. Customers must identify and migrate all integration scenarios referencing deprecated pension fields to the new PensionBenefitDetails object paths. The documentation provides a detailed mapping of old to new navigation paths and field names covering pension-specific fields such as country, typeOfPension, ageOfRetirement, and multipleFundSelectionsAllowed.

Test Recommendations
• Audit all Story reports referencing pension-related fields in the old Benefit object and identify those requiring migration • Audit all Business Rules and Integrations referencing deprecated pension fields in the Benefit object • Map each deprecated pension field to its new equivalent in PensionBenefitDetails using the SAP-provided navigation path table • Update OData API calls to reference new paths (e.g., /Benefit(...)/pensionBenefitDetails?$select=typeOfPension) • Test Story reports referencing both old and new objects to confirm they return correct data before the deletion date • Validate integration scenarios end-to-end with new API endpoints after migration
Product: Employee Central
Modules: Integration and Extension Global Benefits
Feature: Global Benefits
Reference: BEN-14310
Version: 1H 2024; 1H 2025; 1H 2026; 1H 2027; 2H 2024; 2H 2025; 2H 2026
Valid as Of: May 14, 2027
Latest Revision: Apr 03, 2026
Affected Areas:
Employee Central Global Benefits Benefit PensionBenefitDetails OData API Story Reports Business Rules Integrations