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We provide several administrative tools for client agencies and employees. We have been a cross-service provider of payroll services for over 35 years. It provides a full range of payroll services for over 18,600 employees, which includes our agency and more than 30 independent agencies or presidential commissions.
We have experience in serving agencies with quasi-government employees and can handle unique payroll conditions, based on client-agency charters. It has been recognized as a leader in using innovative systems that implement timely legislatively and regulatory directed employee benefit programs.
Our 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. We also provide 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 through the Office of Personnel Management’s Employee Express .
We are one of four e-Payroll providers for the Federal Government, which is the Compensation Management component of the Human Resources Line of Business initiative. We participate in the Shared Services governance, which focuses on ensuring human resource and payroll policy and procedures are standardized and easy to understand and administer. We are an active member of the HR LOB Multi-Agency Policy Advisory Council, the OPM and Office of Management and Budget Multi-Agency Executive Strategy Committee , and the OMB and GSA Unified Shared Services Management Providers Council that helps guide the Human Capital process across the Federal government. As part of the HR LOB, we participate in various studies and initiatives with the goal of continuous improvement in Federal payroll processing. In addition, we continue to provide employee-centric customer service, state of the art Payroll and Time and Leave systems.
If you are unable to access your last three earnings and leave statements or last three W-2 and 1095-C forms, because you participated in the Deferred Resignation Program or were part of a reduction in force, contact us and allow up to four business days for us to process your request.
Open 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Eastern
kc-payroll.finance@gsa.gov
844-303-6515
GSA Payroll Services Branch
Suite 2NW
2300 Main St.
Kansas City, MO 64108
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