• Did I get all of my retro-active pay? The answer is most likely “yes”. Your adjustments can be viewed on liteblue (ePayroll). Each adjustment covers one pay period. HOWEVER, there will be one adjustment that covers 26 pay periods (a 1.3% increase from PP25/2018 through PP24/2019).

• What about the Cost of Living Increase? The multi-pay period adjustment also includes a retro-active COLA of $624 that was effective August 31, 2019.

• Why did they withhold so much in taxes? This is due to IRS guidelines. When your pay increases by a substantial amount, the IRS assumes you got a permanent increase and assess your taxes as if you were going to get that much money all the time. So, basically you are overtaxed. You will get that money back when you file your taxes next year.

The APWU is aware of approximately 2,000 employees who did not receive their retro-active pay.  Most of these situations involve employees in higher level details , or employees with saved grade.

If anyone has questions, we will review your adjustments with you, but you will need to bring in printouts from liteblue,

and your paystubs cover PP25 2018 through PP08 2020.