Information for Employees

If your paycheck is damaged and the bank will not accept it, bring it back to payroll and we will complete the necessary paperwork, with the State Controller's Office, to get a replacement. This takes approximately 10-15 days.

If an employee is unable or not working on payday and would like someone else to pick up their paycheck. Please speak to your department in advance and fill out an Authorization to have another person pick up their paycheck for them. That person must show a Photo ID and sign for the paycheck in the Cashier's Office on payday.

No, they are printed at the State Controller's Office in Sacramento and delivered to us.

Master Payroll is picked up by the designated Authorized personnel from each Dept. on payday at 3 pm in Student Financial Services and distributed to the employee by the department designated person.

Exceptions:

• All employees who turn in some sort of timesheet get paid on the 15th of each month for the previous month. Examples are Hourly Intermittent employees, Student Assistants, Shift or Overtime pay. The employee picks up their own checks at Cashiers during normal business hours: Monday -Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Must present your photo I.D.
• Special Consultants are paid and at the end of the month, if Payroll has received all necessary documentation.
• Large departments, that have made arrangements (Facilities), have authorized personnel who pick up paychecks for their entire area for distribution on the 15th.

A lost paycheck must have a stop payment placed on it. Once the State is sure that it has not been cashed, a replacement check will be issued. This process can take 2-4 weeks. Stop payments are placed through the Payroll Office. For an unofficial copy of your direct deposit advice, you can log on to Cal Employee Connect.

Payroll warrants (paychecks) that have not been cashed within one year after the issue date are considered stale-dated and will revert to an unclaimed cash revenue account in the fund from which warrants are drawn. Financial institutions (banks) will not accept or cash a stale-dated check. Requests for a replacement check can be made within two (2) years from the date the paychecks were credited to the unclaimed cash revenue account. After the two year period, these warrants are considered unclaimed property and are registered with the State Controller's Office. To see if you have any unclaimed property, please visit the State Controller's Office website. Information on how to file a claim to recovery property is provided on the site.

When completing an Absence Entry for an earning of Compensatory Time Off (CTO) or Holiday Additional Day Off (ADO), you are also required to complete an entry of ‘No Leave Taken’ or a take such as Vacation, Sick-Self, etc.

Upon validation of eligibility to donate catastrophic leave hours to an employee in need (have not exceeded annual donations allowed and/or have leave credits available), Catastrophic Leave donations are processed in the Absence Management System by Payroll.

Effective November 30, 2012, all CSUSB eligible "State" employees may view their leave balances on-line. If Catastrophic Leave donations have been processed, adjustments to employees' records will be reflected accordingly in the Absence Management system.

Employees who do not have access to their records on-line, may receive the information from the department Time-Keeper.

Coming Soon

The State Controller's Office (SCO) cancels all Direct Deposit Authorizations each year during June and December, for employees who do not have active appointments in the SCO system.

Your direct deposit may be cancelled by the Payroll Department or the State Controller's Office:

• If you are seperating or have been separated from the university- (per AB2410- payment of wages upon seperation requirements).
• If you no longer meet the Direct Deposit eligibility requirments, insufficient leave balances, absence without leave,dock,tardiness.
• If your Direct Deposit payment has been returned to the SCO (due to a closed or invalid routing number or account number, the SCO will re-issue a paper warrant once re-deposited, this can take up to a few weeks).
• If an overpayment occurred due, but not limited to, death/permanent speration/suspension/dismissal,layoff.
• If the SCO is collecting, via payroll deduction, an overpayment.
• If you have filed bankruptcy under the National Bankruptcy Act, Chapters VII & XIII and a court order directs all or a portion of your pay to be remitted to a third party.
• If you are currently receiving non-industrial disability (NDI) payments without personal leave credit supplementation.
• If you do not have a current/active rostered student position. (1868, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1150,1151,1152,1153)
• Due to fraud on one's account.

Academic Year Faculty Early Retirement employees must enroll for direct deposit each year.

The direct deposit authorization form is available online through the State Controller's Office (SCO) website. You can either submit the signed original form to Human Resources or email it to payroll. If you email it, make sure only the last four of your SSN is showing. All completed Direct Deposit forms are mailed to the SCO for processing.

If you are unable to access the direct deposit authorization form online, the form is also available with Human Resources in Sierra Hall Room 101

When a warrant is issued, federal and state income taxes are withheld and forwarded to the Internal Revenue Service, Franchise Tax Board, Medicare and Social Security on the employee's behalf. Miscellaneous deductions, such as garnishments and deferred compensation (TSAs/403Bs, etc.), may also be withheld and forwarded on the employee's behalf.

So, if an employee is paid in error and the State Controller's Office is unable to recoup the deductions forwarded on their behalf then, the employee will owe the net amount plus any deductions taken from that warrant.

Complete a stop payment request form at the Payroll Department. Payroll will forward the request to the State Controller's Office for processing. If the warrant has not been cashed, a replacement warrant will be issued. The request may take up to 4 weeks to process.

These types of pay are processed on an ongoing basis. As Payroll receives the timely and accurate electronic transactions (in PeopleSoft) and supporting documents, they are processed.

Yes, immediately notify the Payroll Office so that your Direct Deposit can be canceled and to ensure that a paper paycheck is issued to you in a timely manner.

If you recently submitted the direct deposit form with your new account information, it will take 30 to 45 days before it begins depositing in your new account. 

Establishing direct deposit can take from 30 days to 45 days. Until established, you'll continue getting paper checks. 

Depending on your bank, you can get it as soon as payday or as late as 2 business days after.

Coming Soon

Starting early in 2017, certain employees may receive one or more forms providing information about the health care coverage that they had or were offered during 2016. Much like Form W-2 and Form 1099, which include information about the income you received, these new health care forms provide information that you may need when you file your individual income tax return. Also like Forms W-2 and 1099, these new forms will be provided to the IRS by the entity that provides the form to you.

The forms are:

• Form 1095-B, Health Coverage. Health insurance providers (for example, health insurance companies) send this form to individuals they cover, with information about who was covered and when.
• Form 1095-C, Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage. State Controllers Office (SCO) will send this form to certain employees, with information about what coverage the employer offered. This is for information purposes only and the employee should keep it with their tax return information.

The State Controller’s Office (SCO) will mail all 1095-Cs to the employee’s current mailing address. The SCO will pre-print the SCO address as the return address for all 1095-Cs. The SCO will send undeliverable 1095-Cs to the campus for distribution to the employees.

• The Form W-2 Wage Statement reflects wages paid by warrants and/or direct deposit payments that were issued during the tax year, regardless of the pay period in which the wages were earned.
• The Form W-2 includes warrants/payments dated January 1st through December 31st of each calendar year. It contains all wages and tax information for an employee regardless of the number of State agencies/campuses for which he or she worked during the tax year. (Only one (1) Form W-2 is issued for each employee).
• All W-2 forms will be mailed no later than January 31st, directly from the State Controller’s Office (SCO) in Sacramento, to the employee’s mailing address on file with Payroll Services as of the November pay period of the calendar year 2019.
• W-2s that are undeliverable by the United States Postal Service should be returned to our campus' Payroll Office (Sierra Hall, room 103), based on our campus’ agency code printed on each W-2 form. Payroll Services will notify active/current employees and their respective department, via email, when undeliverable W-2s have been returned to us.
• Employees can retrieve their returned W-2 from Payroll Services (SH-103). Please bring your photo ID with you.
• Employees, who do not receive their W-2’s within a couple of weeks from when the SCO mailed them, may request that Payroll order a duplicate W-2 on their behalf (no fee required), providing the written request is received by Payroll prior to February deadline.
• Employees who do not receive their W-2 Wage Statement by the February deadline, and did not request that Payroll order duplicate W-2’s on their behalf, will be required to request duplicate W-2 forms directly from the State Controller’s Office W-2 Unit at a cost of $8.50. Normally, during tax time, the SCO estimates a 2 – 3 week turn-around period. The sooner the request is mailed to the SCO’s W-2 Unit, the quicker you will receive your duplicate. Payroll cannot request duplicate W-2’s on behalf of employees after February 22, 2019.
• Prior to requesting a duplicate W-2, please contact your local Post Office to see if your W-2 Wage Statement may be there.
• Procedures for requesting duplicate W-2s can be found at the SCO's Request Duplicate W-2 page.

For more information concerning the Form W-2, please visit the State Controller's Office website to find the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Regarding Form W-2 Wage and Tax Statement.

If you have any further questions you contact the Payroll Department at (909) 537-5159.

Employees who do not receive their W-2's may request duplicate W-2 forms directly from the State Controller's Office W-2 Unit at a cost of $8.50. Normally, during tax time, the SCO estimates a 2 - 3 week turn-around period. The sooner the request is mailed to the SCO's W-2 Unit, the quicker you will receive your duplicate

Prior to requesting a duplicate W-2, please contact your local Post Office to see if your W-2 may be there.

Instruction on how to request a duplicate W-2 wage and tax statement can be found on the State Controller's Office website.

All W-2 forms will be mailed by no later than January 31st, directly from the State Controller's Office (SCO) in Sacramento, to the employee's mailing address on file with the Payroll Office as of the November pay period of the calendar year. The SCO communicated that it will begin mailing W-2's on or around January 20th of each year.

W-2s that are undeliverable by the United States Postal Service should be returned to our campus Payroll Office (Sierra Hall, Room 103), based on our campus' return address on each W-2 form. Payroll will notify active/current employees' departments when undeliverable W-2s have been returned to us.

Departments will notify their employees to contact Payroll to retrieve their returned W-2's. Please bring your picture identification with you.

The Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, reflects wages paid by warrants/direct deposit payments that were issued during the tax year, regardless of the pay period in which the wages were earned.

The Form W-2 includes warrants/payments issue dated from January 1st through December 31st of each calendar year. It contains all wages and tax information for an employee regardless of the number of State agencies/campuses for which he or she worked during the tax year.

Yes, for every 160 hours worked you'll receive one (1) vacation and one (1) sick leave accrual. Intermittent employees paid an hourly equivalent of a monthly salary rate to receive time off with pay for a Personal Holiday, based on the number of hours worked in the pay period in which the personal holiday is taken. Personal Holiday credit not used within the calendar year will be forfeited.