Volume 3
Issue 17
Oct. 22, 2010
Newsletter for
Payroll Contacts
Payroll News
Furlough Updates—for Sick Hours Use SMS
For employees who chose to use sick leave to make up for a Furlough absence, Payroll
Contacts were instructed to enter SMS (Sick—Miscellaneous) into CATS in place of SCK,
SLO and SPR.
Inside this Issue:
There are still hours in CATS with SCK, SLO and/or SPR subtypes which appear to have
been entered as replacements for FUR/FND absences. If you have been contacted by your
1 Payroll Processor to update SCK, SLO, or SPR records but they are correct as-is please
Furlough Updates
respond via email with an explanation as to why the entry is correct. (For example, an
Savings Bonds Changes 1 employee may have originally requested part of a day as Furlough—SMS and part of a day
1 as Sick—SCK. Otherwise, any Sick hours used as Furlough replacements but entered
Count of Employees
in CATS as SCK, SLO or SPR must be changed to SMS immediately.
Who Have Opted-out
of Printed Pay Advices
Savings Bonds Changes
Count of Active
Employees who
are Opted-out of
Printed Pay
Advices as of
10/20/10: 4,461
Payroll Numbers
Phone
(754) 321-8150
Fax
(754) 321-8231
REMINDER:
Open Enrollment Ends
Oct. 29, 2010
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ERP/Benefits Help
Desks close at 4PM
If you are
always late
it is because
you are trying
to make things
go faster or
be shorter.
― NYC Cab Driver
The District has been notified by the US Department of Treasury (Treasury) that they will be
discontinuing paper savings bonds through payroll deduction and will transition to a new
electronic process effective Jan. 1, 2011. As a result, employees will no longer be able to
purchase paper savings bonds through the old process of payroll deductions. The Treasury
sent a notice to all bond holders advising them of this change. In addition, letters were sent
by the District to each employee with an active savings bonds deduction.
To comply with the Jan. 1, 2011 effective date, the last bond deduction through payroll will
be Oct. 22, 2010 for employees in the BB Payroll Area and Oct. 29, 2010 for employees in
the AA Payroll Area. Any employees with a remaining balance for savings bonds deductions
previously withheld will be issued a refund within two pay periods from the date of their last
savings bond deduction. If employees would like to discontinue the purchase of
savings bonds no action step is necessary because the deduction will end
automatically on the above mentioned dates.
Going forward, if employees want to purchase bonds electronically, they must first set up an
account with the Treasury. (Directions for doing so are available on their website at
www.treasurydirect.gov.) After employees have established this account, they may choose
one of the following two options:
1. Remit payment for savings bonds directly to the Treasury.
2. Or, have the payments remitted electronically to the Treasury through direct deposit from
their paychecks.
Employees who select direct deposit from their paychecks will be required to:
•First, select the per-pay-check amount that The School Board of Broward County will remit
to the Treasury on their behalf.
•Then, either submit a paper direct deposit application to Payroll or personally set up the
new direct deposit account as an additional bank via Employee Self Service (ESS).
Employees will use the routing/account information provided by the Treasury for the direct
deposit (for Treasury account numbers, enter the alpha/numeric provided but no dash).
PDF Direct Deposit applications are available on the BRITE website at:
http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/erpdb/brite/onlinelibrary/forms/ .
Instructions for setting up an new additional bank via ESS are available on the BRITE
website at: http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/erp/ds-erp/HR%20docs/ESS_Payment_Adding%
20Addt%27l%20Bank_081009.pdf
For questions pertaining to the new electronic savings bonds process please visit the US
Department of Treasury website at:
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/news/news_elimination_paperpayrollqa.htm#partial