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# Get the additional voluntary contribution for a pay period

> Returns the additional voluntary contribution for the addressed pay period, or 404 when none is set.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/specs/pension-v2.json get /employee-pension/{employeeId}/additional-voluntary-contributions/{taxYear}/{period}
openapi: 3.0.4
info:
  title: FlowPayroll Pension API
  version: v2
servers:
  - url: https://api.sandbox.flowpayroll.ai/v2/pension
security: []
tags:
  - name: Pension providers
    description: >-
      Look up the pension providers available to your organisation. Providers
      are set up in the product, so the API exposes them read-only.
  - name: Pension schemes
    description: >-
      Your organisation's arrangements with providers. Scheme endpoints use the
      /pension-schema path.
  - name: Pension groups
    description: >-
      Contribution rule sets within a scheme: pension type, contribution basis,
      and employee and employer factors.
  - name: Employee enrolment
    description: >-
      Associate employees with pension groups, remove associations, and send
      enrolment letters.
  - name: Pension information
    description: >-
      An employee's full pension picture in one call: composition, latest
      assessment, and postponement.
  - name: Auto-enrolment
    description: >-
      Assessment results per pay run, employees with outstanding or no
      auto-enrolment, and a stateless assessment preview.
  - name: Postponement
    description: Defer auto-enrolment per employee, overriding the organisation defaults.
  - name: Organisation defaults
    description: >-
      The organisation's default pension group, postponement definitions, and
      auto-enrolment mode.
  - name: Pension calculations
    description: >-
      Per-period contribution amounts, the contributions CSV, and provider
      export files.
  - name: Provider submissions
    description: >-
      Send a completed pay run to its connected pension provider, approve the
      payment, and read back what the provider reported: opt-outs, stopped
      contributions, refunds and schedules.
paths:
  /employee-pension/{employeeId}/additional-voluntary-contributions/{taxYear}/{period}:
    get:
      tags:
        - AdditionalVoluntaryContribution
      summary: Get the additional voluntary contribution for a pay period
      description: >-
        Returns the additional voluntary contribution for the addressed pay
        period, or 404 when none is set.
      operationId: GetAdditionalVoluntaryContribution
      parameters:
        - name: employeeId
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: taxYear
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: integer
            format: int32
        - name: period
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: integer
            format: int32
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: >-
                  #/components/schemas/AdditionalVoluntaryContributionModelResponseBody
        '400':
          description: Bad Request
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectResponseBody'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectResponseBody'
        '404':
          description: Not Found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectResponseBody'
        '500':
          description: Internal Server Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectResponseBody'
components:
  schemas:
    AdditionalVoluntaryContributionModelResponseBody:
      required:
        - message
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/MessageWithTokenResponse'
        content:
          $ref: >-
            #/components/schemas/AdditionalVoluntaryContributionModelContentResponse
        validationIssues:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationIssue'
          nullable: true
        errors:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: >-
            Deprecated: the same issues as `validationIssues` (`reasonText` is
            `reason`, `reasonId` is `reasonToken`, `reasonParameters` is
            `reasonTokenArguments`). Read `validationIssues`; this will be
            removed.
          nullable: true
          readOnly: true
          deprecated: true
        metadata:
          allOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentMetadataResponse'
          description: >-
            Deprecated: the same values as `content.metadata`. Read that; this
            will be removed.
          deprecated: true
      additionalProperties: false
      description: >-
        The response envelope every FlowPayroll API answers with: a `message`,
        the

        `content`, and any `validationIssues`. `errors` and the top-level

        `metadata` are deprecated copies of `validationIssues` and

        `content.metadata`, and will be removed.
    ObjectResponseBody:
      required:
        - message
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/MessageWithTokenResponse'
        content:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectContentResponse'
        validationIssues:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationIssue'
          nullable: true
        errors:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: >-
            Deprecated: the same issues as `validationIssues` (`reasonText` is
            `reason`, `reasonId` is `reasonToken`, `reasonParameters` is
            `reasonTokenArguments`). Read `validationIssues`; this will be
            removed.
          nullable: true
          readOnly: true
          deprecated: true
        metadata:
          allOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentMetadataResponse'
          description: >-
            Deprecated: the same values as `content.metadata`. Read that; this
            will be removed.
          deprecated: true
      additionalProperties: false
      description: >-
        The response envelope every FlowPayroll API answers with: a `message`,
        the

        `content`, and any `validationIssues`. `errors` and the top-level

        `metadata` are deprecated copies of `validationIssues` and

        `content.metadata`, and will be removed.
    MessageWithTokenResponse:
      required:
        - token
      type: object
      properties:
        text:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        token:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Stable snake_case key for the message, for clients that translate
            it.
          nullable: true
        tokenArguments:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationIssueArgument'
          nullable: true
        textId:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Deprecated: the same value as `token`. Read that; this will be
            removed.
          nullable: true
          readOnly: true
          deprecated: true
        textParameters:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pair'
          description: >-
            Deprecated: the same values as `tokenArguments`. Read that; this
            will be removed.
          nullable: true
          readOnly: true
          deprecated: true
      additionalProperties: false
      description: >-
        What happened, as English `text` and a stable `token` to translate from.

        `textId` and `textParameters` are deprecated copies of `token` and
        `tokenArguments`.
    AdditionalVoluntaryContributionModelContentResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        data:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/AdditionalVoluntaryContributionModel'
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentMetadataResponse'
      additionalProperties: false
    ValidationIssue:
      type: object
      properties:
        field:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        reason:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        reasonToken:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        reasonTokenArguments:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationIssueArgument'
          nullable: true
      additionalProperties: false
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        field:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        reasonText:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        reasonId:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        reasonParameters:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pair'
          nullable: true
      additionalProperties: false
      description: >-
        Deprecated: an entry of the old `errors` list. Read `validationIssues`
        instead.
      deprecated: true
    ContentMetadataResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        dateFormat:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        dateTimeFormat:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        paginationToken:
          type: string
          nullable: true
      additionalProperties: false
    ObjectContentResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        data:
          nullable: true
        metadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentMetadataResponse'
      additionalProperties: false
    ValidationIssueArgument:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        value:
          nullable: true
      additionalProperties: false
    Pair:
      type: object
      properties:
        key:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        value:
          type: string
          nullable: true
      additionalProperties: false
      description: >-
        Deprecated: a key and value of the old `textParameters` and
        `reasonParameters`.
      deprecated: true
    AdditionalVoluntaryContributionModel:
      required:
        - amount
        - createdBy
        - createdDate
        - employeeId
        - period
        - taxYear
        - updatedBy
        - updatedDate
      type: object
      properties:
        employeeId:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        taxYear:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        period:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        amount:
          type: number
          description: >-
            The gross additional voluntary contribution for the pay period. On
            relief-at-source schemes the

            payslip deduction is 80% of this; the provider claims the basic-rate

            relief.
          format: double
        createdBy:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        createdDate:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        updatedBy:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        updatedDate:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      additionalProperties: false
      description: >-
        An additional voluntary contribution: an extra member

        contribution for one pay period only, on top of the scheme contribution
        and

        any standing one. At most one per employee per pay period; a repeated
        PUT

        replaces the amount.

````

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