Central Payroll Bureau (CPB) is now allowing employees to UPDATE their direct deposit account information via the Payroll Online Service Center (POSC).  In order to do this the employee has to know the prior account information for their direct deposit.

https://hr.umbc.edu/payroll-online-service-center-posc/

On December 27, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. This Act provides additional temporary relief to Healthcare Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Daycare Flexible Spending Accounts. 

The Department of Budget & Management is adopting some of the optional, temporary changes available under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. Employees enrolled in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) may have already received an email notification directly from the FSA vendor, P&A Group.

In summary, the State of Maryland will:

1.  Temporarily extend the Grace Period (time to incur expenses) for a Healthcare FSA until 12 months after the plan end date.

• The 2020 Plan year will allow the extension to occur from March 15, 2021 to December 31, 2021.
• The 2021 Plan year will allow the extension to occur from March 15, 2022 to December 31, 2022.

• The 2020 Plan year will allow the extension to occur from March 15, 2021 to December 31, 2021.
• The 2021 Plan year will allow the extension to occur from March 15, 2022 to December 31, 2022.

3.  Temporarily extend the Runout Period (time to file for reimbursement) for both the 2020 and 2021 plan years.

• 2020 is temporarily extended from April 15, 2021 to April 15, 2022
• 2021 is temporarily extended from April 15, 2022 to April 15, 2023

For employees enrolled in the MD State Retirement & Pension system (the Pension Agency), an updated schedule of pre-retirement webinars is now available. 

These webinars are a valuable pre-retirement planning tool for all eligible members (within 8 years of retirement) and their spouses, hosted by the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC).

Due to COVID-19 safety precautions, all seminars will be offered as webinars covering the same topics as the in-person sessions.

Please register using this link http://www.ccbcmd.edu/ceed-preretirement-state or by calling 443-840-5059. Please remember to use the course # when registering.

The webinars run 9:00 a.m. – 4 p.m. and are open to members and their spouses.

• March 2 (CRN 38114)
• March 17 (CRN 38105)
• April 15 (CRN 38110)
• April 28 (CRN 38104)

After registration, participants will receive a link to the webinar with instructions to participate.

Please visit the MD State Pension Agency website monthly for newly scheduled webinars.

The Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) invites you to join Training and Case Manager Ever Hanna (they/them) for a discussion about how UMBC can improve business processes, technologies and apps (such as People Soft and G-suite), and overall climate for transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary employees.

OEI is in the process of partnering with several offices across campus to continue to increase inclusion of trans, GNC, and non-binary employees. The feedback collected in these sessions will be reported back anonymously to appropriate offices. OEI is especially interested in hearing from directly affected individuals as well as hiring managers and payroll preparers from across campus.  

These sessions are open to any faculty or staff member at UMBC:

Tuesday, February 16th from 2-3 PM

Friday, February 19th from 2-3 PM

Friday, February 26th from 10-11 AM

This session is open only to employee members who identify as trans, gender non-conforming, non-binary, or any other identity that falls outside of the gender binary: 

Thursday, February 18 from 1-2 PM (The guest list for this event will be hidden and the meeting will be locked at 1:15 PM)

OEI will post a list of questions that may be asked during the sessions ahead of time. If you require additional accommodations to be able to access the meeting, please email EverHanna@umbc.edu with your request.

Note: The Office of Equity and Inclusion encourages any individual who has currently or formerly experienced discrimination on the basis of their gender identity or expression to report this discrimination through our online reporting form. Disclosures of discrimination that may occur during these listening sessions will not be considered reports to OEI. 

The session facilitator will take notes, but these sessions will not be recorded.