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National Payroll BranchGSA's National Payroll Branch (NPB) provides a number of administrative tools for client agencies and employees. GSA has been a cross-service provider of payroll services for over 30 years. It provides a full range of payroll services for over 25,000 employees, which includes GSA and more than 30 independent agencies or presidential commissions. GSA has experience in serving agencies with quasi-government employees and has the ability to handle unique payroll conditions, based on client-agency charters. It has been recognized as a leader in using innovative systems that timely implements legislatively and regulatory directed employee benefit programs. GSA's payroll services include processing of all transactions affecting an employee's entire service life--from initial hire through final payment at separation and submission of retirement records to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). GSA also provides customers with quick, accurate, and real-time information regarding their pay accounts. Employees of client agencies even have the choice of viewing their Electronic Pay and Leave Statement online. As part of the President's Management Agenda (PMA), President Bush's E-Government initiative on payroll consolidates federal payroll processing from 22 down to four agencies. On January 15, 2003, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that GSA was selected as one of the final payroll providers. To date, the GSA National Payroll Branch has completed the migration of our e-Payroll customers on the GSA's Payroll, Accounting and Reporting (PAR) system. The second goal of the e-Payroll initiative is to provide a governance process that provides e-Payroll policies and procedures that are issued uniformly, in a timely manner and are easy to understand and administer. Reducing the 22 payroll providers down to the four approved providers has created a more manageable framework to identify inconsistencies in payroll policies and procedures. The GSA NPB continues to be an active participant in OPM's e-Payroll Standardization Working Group. AGENCIES SERVED BY GSA NPB
Last Reviewed 7/30/2008
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