Glossary

RTI Real Time Information Collection of PAYE information as it happens instead of at month-end or year-end.
FPS Full Payment Submission Sent every payroll. Also used as an alignment before starting RTI by companies without split schemes or less than 250+ employees.
EPS Employer Payment Summary Sent monthly to inform HMRC about adjustments made to the monthly payment.
NVR NINO Verification Request Sends a request for a National Insurance number to HMRC.
EYU Earlier Year Update This allows you to make amendments to earlier year submissions. More details on this will be available in the Year-end Guide.
DPS Data Provisioning Service This is the system HMRC uses to send messages to your payroll.
YTD Year To Date The FPS and EPS always send Year to Date values to HMRC.
Irregular Payment indicator   For any Casual or Occasional workers, particularly those who may not work for you for three months or more. It informs HMRC that the individual is still employed by your company.
Payment after leaving indicator   This is needed if an employee has appeared as a leaver on an FPS but they need paying again.
NINO National Insurance Number  
Split Scheme   Where a company’s payrolls are split, e.g. the company runs its payroll on IRIS payroll software but their Directors' payroll is run by a bureau, or the company is split across two or more IRIS payroll software companies