Housekeeping. Nothing changes in how your hours, your contract or your funds are read — the numbers come out exactly the same as 1.6.

Fixes a bug that could report a shortage that wasn't there — or miss a real one. LineLedger reads your NEAP rate off the wage table in your own agreement now, one row per effective date, so an April check is judged at April's rate instead of whatever rate was current the day you first read the agreement. If the table can't tell which row is yours — an apprentice, an equipment operator, a footnoted classification — the app says so and asks you for the rate off your fringe sheet, instead of guessing. And when a rule you've OK'd doesn't match what your agreement's wage schedule prints for that day, LineLedger stops and shows you both instead of picking one. It never changes or deletes a rule you've confirmed.

Fund Rules now reads your NEAP rate. Plenty of agreements never print the NEAP rate in a sentence. Ours gives a minimum and then points at the wage exhibit in the back — and that is where the real number lives, different for a journeyman, a foreman, a general foreman, a groundman, an operator and every apprentice period. LineLedger now reads that table. Hit Read Agreement and it fills in the NEAP rate for your own classification, and tells you which effective-date column it came from so you can check it against your fringe sheet before you confirm it. It also stopped losing funds to a page footer. On a long agreement the footer gets pulled into the middle of a sentence, and it was splitting the NEAP heading away from its own clause. That is why NEAP came back empty while Lineco HRA came through fine. When your classification carries a footnote in the agreement, or the app cannot read a number cleanly, it says so and asks you to type it instead of guessing. A wrong rate is worse than no rate when you are checking your own paycheck.

Fund Rules now reads your agreement properly. • Read from agreement was hit and miss. On the same contract it could come back with a different set of funds each time, and NEAP usually never came back at all. Three separate causes, all fixed. • The page footer your contract repeats on every page was landing in the middle of sentences, which broke any clause running across a page break. LineLedger strips it now — and re-reads the agreements you already uploaded, so there is nothing for you to redo. • When a fund's rate lives only in a wage table — NEAP almost always does — you now get the fund and how it is figured, and you type the rate off your fringe sheet. Before you got nothing at all for that fund. • A clause that starts "HRA:" is read as the HRA instead of being thrown away. • Ask the same question twice and you get the same answer. That goes for the agreement chat and the pay audit too, not just Fund Rules.

Catch the funds getting shorted, not just the check. • Fund Rules — tell LineLedger how NEAP, NEBF, Lineco and your local's funds get paid under each contractor's agreement, or let it read the rules off the agreement and confirm them against your fringe sheet. Nothing counts until you flip "That's right". • Fix-it Check — when a contractor makes a short check right, enter what the fix-it stub shows and see what each fund actually got. Eight straight hours paid back as four hours of double time squares the check and leaves NEAP and Lineco four hours short. Share the result with your business rep. • Working dues — a fix coded outside gross never has the check-off taken out. LineLedger says when the hall is short too. • NEAP statements by payroll month — copy the contributions table off your statement and each month's dollars are turned back into hours against the days you logged, with flags for money that came in late or a month that was never reported. • The consent screen before anything leaves your phone now says exactly what goes out for each kind of check.

NEW — Hours & Pay, rebuilt around your pay week Your pay period is the week, Monday to Sunday. Log Today's Hours starts this week's period for you. The week you're in sits at the top; last week sits right under it with its own Attach Pay Stub — because the stub for last week shows up mid-way through this one. Tap any week to see every day, attach time sheets and the stub, and run the audit, all on one screen. All seven days are visible at once. NEW — Benefits tab Upload your quarterly NEAP or Lineco statement and LineLedger checks the hours the fund was told against the hours in your book, month by month. It only judges months that could actually have been reported by the statement date, so it never invents a shortfall out of a month that wasn't due yet. Also: it says "business rep" now, everywhere it used to say "business agent."