Employees who are preparing to leave service should update their My Pay and payroll accounts so they can easily access their pay and tax information without their Common Access Card (CAC).
Those records are only kept online for approximately one year before they go offline, making them much harder to obtain if you are threatened with a debt issue in the future. Having these pay records will also be important if you will be seeking RITA reimbursement of PCS taxes in the future.
On My Pay you can create a login with a username and password. As long as an employee does that they can still access My Pay without a CAC.
As you prepare to leave service, it’s important to update to your My Pay and payroll accounts so you can easily access your pay and tax information without your Common Access Card (CAC). You’ll have access to your My Pay account for 13 months after you leave service. Take the following steps as soon as possible before you separate and try to log on to your account on a personal device:
- Update your ‘Email Address
- Update your mailing address. Active duty Army and Navy members—contact your personnel or finance office to make changes in your correspondence address.
- Update your ‘Security Questions for Passwords Resets’
- Save/print a copy of all your available My Pay W2s, LESs and other pay documents
