Staff Directory
Garnishment Administration Unit
The Garnishment Administration Unit (GA Unit) is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and monitoring all statewide actions associated with garnished wage notices and judgments as related to child support, federal and state tax levies, administrative wage assignments, medical support orders, alimony, student loans, and bankruptcy orders; making payments and releasing (stopping) garnishments; investigating all laws pertaining to these garnishments and including basis for payments and prioritizing. The GA Unit is also responsible for establishing, maintaining, and monitoring records related to the repayment of employee wages (regular, special, overtime, and term pay) paid in error, in accordance with state and federal laws and Civil Service Rules.
Benefits & Financial Administration Unit
The Benefits and Financial Administration Unit (BFA Unit) is responsible for processing payments to all employees (including travel payments) and approximately 40 vendors (e.g. Group Benefits, agency meals, uniforms and housing, statewide vendors, START, LAUW/SCCC, union dues); processing agency requests for employee EFT bank reversals, system reversals and replacements, and stop payment requests; reviewing all current or new statewide vendor applications to ensure vendor compliance with the Payroll Deduction Rule and reporting vendor application information to the Employee Payroll Benefits Committee (EPBC) for review; working with the Louisiana Association of United Ways (LAUW) to administer the State Combined Charitable Campaign (SCCC); reconciling cash transferred from the LaGov agency fund to the payroll fund; analyzing and preparing biweekly and monthly financial reports and bank reconciliations; reviewing the payroll and travel ACH return/correction report daily and notifying agencies of corrected bank information for employee direct deposits; processing the aged outstanding and abandoned property processes in LaGov HCM; and administering activities related to the Affordable Care Act reporting.
Wage & Tax Administration Unit
The Wage and Tax Administration Unit (WTA Unit) is responsible for the proper, accurate, and timely reporting and payment of federal and Louisiana state taxes, multiple state taxes, retirement, and tax shelters; special LaGov HCM processing of adjustments to W-2 and W-2c items; reconciliation, preparation, and reporting of Forms 941, W-2, and 1099 (for interest payments and payments for deceased employees), and all other tax related reports and/or forms; reporting payroll claims to the Office of Debt Recovery. The unit stays current on all legal requirements, reports necessary changes for inclusion in LaGov HCM processes, and generates related OSUP memoranda to agencies.
