Hi HannahAVO
Welcome to the Community Forum. When checking payroll details The STP system will only check active employees. Instead of changing the income type, the better option would be to make the card inactive.
As you have quite a few former employees that need to be updated, you could update them all in bulk by using the Import/Export Assistant. You would be updating the field "Card Status", to change them to being inactive cards.
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