Finance Secretary Larissa Larson issued a memorandum yesterday to advise government employees that payroll checks will be released today\u2014a day earlier than the usual schedule.<\/p>\n
The Finance chief stated in the memo that the \u201cdisruption of technology has had a significant impact on the processing of direct deposits to all our CNMI government employees.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, we have implemented contingency plans to ensure payroll for today is on time. As part of our contingency plans, we printed payroll checks last Friday and printed supplemental checks on Monday,\u201d Larson, in the memo, said.<\/p>\n
She also expressed appreciation to the Bank of Guam and other partner banks for their assistance during the past few days.<\/p>\n
\u201cI expect normal operations for direct deposits by next payday,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
On July 14, Larson suspended direct deposits of payroll checks as a communications outage continues to affect the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n
\u201cUntil the technology issues are resolved by IT&E, all direct deposits of payroll checks will be suspended. The Department of Finance will be issuing paper checks to all CNMI government employees until further notice,\u201d she earlier wrote.<\/p>\n
The Finance chief also urged the early submission of payroll documents.<\/p>\n
She earlier described the impact of the outage to her department as \u201cvery significant,\u201d adding that the outage caused delays in drawdowns of federal funds and also severely affected the department\u2019s reporting activities, among other things.<\/p>\n
She said the outage compelled the department to manually process some 1,500 checks for government employees who then had to rush to the bank to cash the checks.<\/p>\n
Government employees normally get their salaries and wages via direct deposit into their bank accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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