National Finance Center

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

To address some issues in the short-term, the Agriculture Department said NFC is on track to hire 80 new employees by January 2024.

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

Tom Temin Commentary

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Federal payroll website for over 170 agencies gets a cybersecurity update

IT Modernization

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Close up of female hands counting US dollar banknotes at the table in front a laptop computer. Woman accountant with money and notebook.

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

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

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 Newscast

OMB, GSA set table for next round of payroll services consolidation

Reporter's Notebook

The Office of Management and Budget is expected to release a new memo in the next month or so detailing new goals and a strategy for shared services.