Payroll

 

 

Overpayments

An overpayment occurs when an employee is paid for hours they did not work or paid at an incorrect rate. ASU is required by law to recover these funds. A series of state and federal regulations govern the overpayment process. Employees must notify their department immediately if they discover an overpayment on a paycheck to comply with these regulations. Departments should reconcile their payroll on a timely basis to ensure that no employees are overpaid.

Repayment process

Once notified of an overpayment, payroll services will provide the department administrator with a payroll deduction agreement and an overpayment schedule for the employee. Repayment should be made in full immediately. However, some overpayments may be substantial and an immediate repayment may be a financial burden to the employee. Accounting Services will work with the employee to identify a mutually agreeable repayment solution in those instances. If the employee fails to respond to the payroll deduction agreement within 10 days, payroll deductions will begin on the next pay period per the terms outlined in the document.

Federal law treats wage overpayments the same as any other wages the employee might receive. As long as the employee repays the overpayment within the same taxable year, all taxes may be refunded, and the employee’s W-2 will reflect the correction. If repayment is received after the end of the tax year in which the overpayment is made, the W-2 cannot be changed for federal income or state taxes. Only social security taxes can be refunded.

Because of these circumstances, payroll will request net pay as the reimbursable amount if the repayment is made in the same year as the overpayment. If the repayment is not made until a later tax year, federal law requires payroll to request gross pay less Social Security taxes as the reimbursable amount. Refer to IRS Publication 525 for more details.

Appeal of determined repayment amount

An employee who wishes to appeal the amount and duration of the repayment may send an email to FS Payroll. All appeals are approved by the senior director of accounting services.

Resources

Staff

Note: Contact backup only if you receive an out-of-office reply.

Associate Director, Financial Services
Aimee Clementi
480-965-5036
Payroll Fax: 480-965-0554

Manager, Payroll Administration
Geraldine Peterson
480-965-3647
Fax: 480-302-8543

Employee

Phone

Responsibility and department codes

Chad Senum 480-727-3780 Interim Payroll Supervisor
Giovanna De Luca
Backup: Rhonda Onisile
480-965-4807

EdPlus — R0101

Payroll General Deductions 

President's Office — A0101

Provost Office — B0101

Rhonda Onisile
Backup: Giovanna De Luca
480-965-1191

Graduate College — B1901

Office of General Counsel — N0101

Sun Devil Athletics — J0101

University College, AISSS, FYS, LEAD and UASP — B6001

Tracy Brown
Fax: 480-505-0641
Backup: Jessica Bolanos
 

480-727-7747

ASU Libraries — B1501

EHS, FS, FDM, HR, PTS and DPS — D0101

Engineering — B1301

Garnishment

West Valley campus — G0206

Freida Brice
Backup: Priscilla Begody

480-965-5319

ABOR — Z0101

Downtown Phoenix campus — M0101

Enterprise Technology — U0101

Jessica Bolanos
Backup: Tracy Brown

602-496-9324

Barrett Honors College — B1201

College of Global Futures: CSPO, SCAS, SFIS and SOS — B3001

Enterprise Brand Strategy and Management — S0102

Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts — B0501

 

Priscilla Begody
Backup: Priscilla Cly
602-543-5878

CLAS — B1701

Learning Enterprise, CA, DC and HI local site — W0101

Polytechnic campus — I0101

W.P. Carey School of Business — B1601

Priscilla Cly
Backup: Freida Brice

 

480-727-0480

Cultural Affairs and Gammage — V0101

EOSS and University Student Initiatives — L01012

North Central Association — H0105

OKED, Research and Biodesign — E0102

Financial Analyst Principal
Tirscha Gomez 480-965-6035 Overpayments

Time reporting

The employee and their immediate supervisor are responsible for accurate time and attendance reporting. Department Time Administrators finalize the time approval only after receiving confirmation or endorsement from the employee’s supervisor or manager.


Each college and administrative area must have a procedure that requires time reporting to be requested by employees and approved by their supervisors before DTAs approve time in PeopleSoft. Departments must maintain request and approval documentation, both subject to review and audit. Refer to the Business Process guide for information.

Staff responsibilities

  • All staff: Provide your supervisor or manager with a written request for all leave per SPP 702–01: Vacation Leave — General Policy and SPP 701–01: Health Leave Benefits.
  • Exempt staff: Enter exception paid time off into the Time and Labor Reporting system or via an alternative method set by the department for all non-worked hours in a pay period.
  • Nonexempt staff: Accurately report the employee’s and student worker’s hours daily. Time entries can be completed using online timesheet reporting, by submitting a paper timesheet or using an alternative method set by the department to the supervisor or manager.

Supervisor and Manager Responsibilities

  • All staff: Manage nonexempt schedules and requests, receive approvals for overtime or compensatory time, review and approve leave requests and submit required documentation to DTA within established deadlines.
  • Exempt staff: Review and approve requests for exception time submitted via email or an alternate method, as determined by the department. Forward any email correspondence of the exception time request to the DTA to finalize.
  • Nonexempt staff: Review, approve, and sign a printed copy of the PeopleSoft timesheet or an alternative method, as set by the department, before submitting it to the DTA to finalize. Provide the DTA any documentation of variations in the schedule and leave request forms.

DTA Responsibilities

  • Compare the employee’s online timesheet with the documentation received.
  • Ensure hours outside standard hours have approval documentation.
  • Ensure that all time signed and approved by a supervisor for their employees is finalized and accurately entered within established payroll processing deadlines.
  • Exempt staff: Verify the entry of exception time against the approved request.
  • Nonexempt staff: Verify the timesheet or alternative time reporting method set by the department for signatures by the employee and supervisor.
  • Report discrepancies between the timesheet and documentation to the employee’s supervisor for resolution.

Vacation and compensatory payouts

Vacation and compensatory payouts at termination or status change are now centrally funded. The ERE rate includes a component to fund vacation and compensatory payouts. Before submitting a vacation or compensatory PTR, departments must map the position number of the employee being terminated or going through a change of status for earnings-specific distribution, for the earnings code VPO and CTP, to Cost Center CC0004 and Program PG03070 in the maintain position accounting screens in PeopleSoft.