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DOL/OCFO-1

SYSTEM NAME:

Attendance, Leave, and Payroll File.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:

None.

SYSTEM LOCATION:

A. All Departmental component offices in Washington DC
B. All Departmental component offices in the Regions and Areas.
C. Timekeepers.
D. Offices of the Chief Financial Officer.

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE SYSTEM:

Department of Labor employees.

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

Name, social security number and employee number, grade, step, and salary, transit subsidies, organization (code), retirement or FICA data as applicable. Federal, State, and local tax deductions, as appropriate. IRS tax lien data, commercial garnishment, child support, authorization forms for savings bond and charity deductions; authorization forms for regular and optional government life insurance deduction(s), health insurance deduction and plan or code; cash award data; jury duty data, military leave data, pay differentials, authorization forms for labor union dues deductions, allotments by type and amount, Thrift Savings Plan contributions, financial institution code and employee account number, leave status and leave data of all types (including annual, compensatory, jury duty, maternity, military, retirement, disability, sick, transferred, donated, and without pay), time and attendance records, including flexitime log sheets indicating number of regular, overtime, holiday, Sunday, and other hours worked, pay period number and ending date, cost of living allowances, co-owner and/or beneficiary of bonds, marital status, number of dependents, mailing address, "Notification of Personnel Action", and claims by the employee for overtime, for back wages and for waivers. Consumer credit reports of individuals indebted to the United States, correspondence to and from the debtor, information or records relating to the debtor's current whereabouts, assets, liabilities, income and expenses, debtor's personal financial statements and other information such as the nature, amount and history of a debt owed by an individual covered by this system, and other records and reports relating to the implementation of the Debt Collection Act of 1982, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, including any investigative reports or administrative review matters. The individual records listed herein are included only as pertinent or applicable to the individual employee.

Note: Sign-in and sign-out records are filed chronologically and are not part of this system.

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:

31 U.S.C. 66(A).

PURPOSE(S):

In compliance with principles and standards prescribed by the Comptroller General, this system manages the Department of Labor's compensation and benefits processing, accounting, and reporting. The system provides control procedures and systems to assure the complete and timely processing of input documents and output reports necessary to update and maintain the Department's Interactive Payroll System.

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:

A. In addition to the general prefatory routine uses, transmittal of data to the U.S. Treasury to effect issuance of paychecks or electronic fund transfers (EFT) to employees and distribution of pay according to employee directions for savings bonds, allotments to financial institutions, and other authorized purposes. Transmittal of Thrift Savings Plan data to the Thrift Savings Board to effect contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan. Tax withholding data sent to the Internal Revenue Service and appropriate State and local taxing authorities, FICA deductions to the Social Security Administration, information concerning dues deductions to labor unions, withholdings for health insurance to insurance carriers and the Office of Personnel Management, charity deductions to agents of charitable institutions, annual W-2 statements to taxing authorities and the individual, and transmittal of computer tape data to appropriate State and local governments for their benefits matching projects. Transmittal of employee's name, social security number, salary history to state unemployment insurance agencies in order to facilitate the processing of state unemployment insurance claims for DOL employees.

B. Pursuant to section 13 of the Debt Collection Act of 1982, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, the name, Social Security Number, address(es), telephone number(s), and nature, amount and history of the debt of a current or former employee may be disclosed to private collection agencies for the purpose of collecting or compromising a debt existing in this system.

C. Department of Justice and General Accounting Office: Information may be forwarded to the General Accounting Office and/or the Department of Justice as prescribed in the Joint Federal Claims Collection Standards (4 CFR Chapter II). When debtors fail to make payment through normal collection routines, the files are analyzed to determine the feasibility of enforced collection by referring the cases to the Department of Justice for litigation.

D. Other Federal Agencies:

Pursuant to sections 5 and 10 of the Debt Collection Act of 1982, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, information relating to the implementation of the Debt Collection Act of 1982 may be disclosed to other Federal Agencies to effect salary or administrative offsets, or for other purposes connected with the collection of debts owed to the United States.

E. Internal Revenue Service:

(1) Information contained in the system of records may be disclosed to the Internal Revenue Service to obtain taxpayer mailing addresses for the purpose of locating such taxpayer to collect, compromise, or write-off a Federal claim against the taxpayer.
(2) Records from this system of records may be disclosed to the Internal Revenue Service for the purpose of offsetting a Federal claim from any income tax refund that may be due to the debtor.
(3) Information may be disclosed to the Internal Revenue Service concerning the discharge of an indebtedness owed by an individual.

F. Records from this system of records may be disclosed to the Defense Manpower Data Center-Department of Defense and the United States Postal Service to conduct computer matching programs for the purpose of identifying and locating individuals who are receiving Federal salaries or benefit payments and are delinquent in their repayment of debts owed to the United States Government under certain programs administered by the United States Department of Labor in order to collect debts under the provisions of the Debt Collection Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97-365) by voluntary repayment, or by salary or administrative offset procedures.

G. The names, social security numbers, home addresses, dates of birth, dates of hire, quarterly earnings, employer identifying information, and State of hire of employees may be disclosed to the Office of Child Support Enforcement, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services for the purpose of locating individuals to establish paternity, establishing and modifying orders of child support, identifying sources of income, and for other child support enforcement actions as required by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (Welfare Reform law, Pub. L. 104-193).

H. A record from this system of records, reflecting the employee's transit subsidy, may be disclosed to other governmental agencies for purposes of comparing transit subsidy recipients and car pool applicants.

DISCLOSURE TO CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCIES:

The amount, status, and history of overdue debts; the name and address, taxpayer identification number (SSN), and other information necessary to establish the identity of a debtor, the agency and program under which the claim arose, are disclosed pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(12) to consumer reporting agencies as defined by section 603(f) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a(f)), in accordance with section 3(d)(4)(A)(ii) of the Federal Claims Collection Act of 1966, as amended (31 U.S.C. 3711 (f)) for the purpose of encouraging the repayment of an overdue debt.

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

STORAGE:

Manual and machine-readable files.

RETRIEVABILITY:

By name and SSN.

SAFEGUARDS:

Personnel screening and locked storage equipment.

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:

Retained for fifty-six (56) years.

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:

Director, Office of Accounting and Payment Services, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20210.

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:

Inquiries should be mailed or presented to the system manager noted at the addresses listed above.

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:

A request for access shall be addressed to the system manager at the address listed above. Individuals must furnish their name and address for their records to be located and identified:

a. Name and address.

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:

A petition for amendment shall be addressed to the System Manager.

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:

Employees, supervisors, timekeepers, official personnel records, the IRS, consumer credit reports, personal financial statements, correspondence with the debtor, records relating to hearings on the debt, and from other DOL systems of records.

SYSTEMS EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE ACT:

None.



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