Internal Revenue Service

Question about W2s
Is our W2 going to be off due to the furlough? For example if your yearly salary is $68,000, but your W2 is only showing $64,000 because of missing a check, does that check now go on 2019? Even though it's back pay?
For some reason this is confusing me! 🙄🤔

So - how was it for everybody?

The NFC had determined back in November 2017 that the 2018 W-2s for us would include 2017 PP 25 through 2018 PP 25 (which ended Saturday December 22, the first day of the shutdown). The paychecks/direct deposits for 2018 PP 25 were paid as usual.

https://www.nfc.usda.gov...112817-NetSalaryCY18.pdf

Anyone else notice that the deductions are wrong? Only 1 week of deductions for insurance, allotments and TSP loan repayments. Night differential is also not correct.

Not sure, but I am thinking as far as the deductions go, they wouldn't take them because these were entire work weeks of furlough time instead of earned pay time. Of the four weeks they are paying, three were completely furlough time and the last week there were two days where you actually worked. Just a guess.

If that is true, they would make up the deductions out of subsequent pay periods? Either way, payroll is going to be getting a lot of requests for explanations and adjustments going forward

Edited by user Tuesday, January 29, 2019 11:37:25 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

If you read the FAQs that is on The Source, also emailed to us all your questions will be answered. Go to EPP - Debt Management, this is the amount of health insurance so far you will owe, a letter will be mailed out with more information, and as so what options you have to pay it back, yourself or it comes out of a paycheck, it will state which pay period they plan on taking it. TSP was double. Night Diff should also be correct, if its not tell your manager, they need to put in for it to be corrected then.

Pay period 26 did not have its FEHB, BENEFEDS taken out. I don't know about the TSP Loan and other allotments. This was all clearly stated that they would not be withholding because they could not.

Edited by user Wednesday, January 30, 2019 1:39:50 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I'm one of a few returning seasonals who was on self-furlough but called back to work in December to return to duty on 1/7/19. We were unable to return because of the shutdown. Some of us were paid from 1/7 because our PAR actions reflected the date that we were EXPECTED/committed to return to work while some of the Return to duty dates were dated Jan 21 when the shutdown was over and therefore were not paid from the date they were supposed to return (some 1/7/19 some 1/2/19). Does anyone know who gave the directive for the Return to Duty Dates for our PAR Actions? It's not on OPM anywhere.....

Follow up federal workers receiving unemployment during the furlough.

My state has begun notifying federal workers they must repay any unemployment received during the furlough giving very little time to make those repayments.

For those like myself that never removed funds from the prepaid unemployment debit cards the state is not willing to reverse those funds for free. They want to charge fees citing federal workers were never eligible for the unemployment because of guaranteed back pay. I applied for just one week of unemployment before back pay was guaranteed.

In my state letters to repay unemployment went out on Feb 1st.

Hello, did you ever find out? I'm curious because I was also on self furlough with a return to work date of 1/3/2019. I didn't get back pay. I filed a grievance and waiting to see what happens next.

Pessimist! We're not answering the phones now anywhere near the level of service goal. Unless Congress fails to pass the expected full year continuing resolution, we're in for the long haul.