National Finance Center

OPM testing new platform for online retirement applications

Guy Cavallo, OPM’s chief information officer, said the goal of this initial project is to reduce paper and the time to process retirement applications.

IT Modernization

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650,000 federal paychecks at risk, as IT, workforce challenges threaten National Finance Center

Workforce

FILE - This May 8, 2008, file photo shows blank checks on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia. Congressional auditors say about 30 million people will have to come up with more money to pay their taxes next year because their employers withheld too little from their paychecks under government tables keyed to the new tax law. New tax withholding tables for employers were put together by the government early 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

This problem could cut off federal paychecks as surely as a shutdown

Agency Oversight

This agency could stop your paycheck cold

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Federal payroll website for over 170 agencies gets a cybersecurity update

IT Modernization

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Payroll tax deferral still causing headaches for some federal retirees and seasonal workers

Federal Report

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Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is interviewed about the Relay, an electric autonomous vehicle, in Fairfax, Va., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. The future of transportation arrived in northern Virginia, looking like a big blue toaster on wheels that can seat six and drive itself through the region’s notorious traffic. State and local officials debuted the Relay system Thursday, an all-electric, autonomous vehicle that will provide free shuttle rides back and forth from the Dunn Loring Metrorail stop to the bustling Mosaic District in Fairfax County, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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House Democrat seeking answers from NFC on federal retirement delays

Retirement

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Federal employees face retirement delays due to lags at NFC

Retirement

Payroll providers offer slightly different plans for collecting 2020 deferred taxes

Pay

Federal employees can’t opt out of payroll tax deferral, agency says

Pay

Trump aiming for late-September launch of payroll tax deferral for federal employees

Pay

Recent paychecks are smaller for some feds due to National Finance Center error

The most recent paychecks for some federal employees are incorrect, potentially by hundreds of dollars, due to a processing error by the National Finance…

Pay

Federal pay raise should appear for many by early next week

Most employees should see the 2019 federal pay raise in their next checks, but the process will be longer and more complicated for others.

Pay

OGE considering restrictions for donations to federal employees’ legal expense funds

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Office of Government Ethics wants feedback on whether it should set restrictions on donations to legal expense funds for federal employees.