In January 1996 when Payroll Services completed the conversion from the Unisys to the IBM mainframe, we lost the ability to control a critical screen edit within the payroll system. Although it may have been a little more cumbersome it did drastically reduce the social security number errors we had. Recently it has come to our attention that social security number errors are on the rise. As of this date, whenever the system determines that the social security number field has been changed, it will provide you with a warning requiring you type wok in the action field of the 160 screen before it will accept the transaction. If you are entering transactions for a new employee it will be necessary to type ADDW in the action field.
Agencies are never to type just ADD in the action field when entering new employee to system.
Doing so will cause entire transactions to be missing or incomplete transactions to be drawn down. Questions regarding this memo should be directed to your payroll auditor. This memo may be found on the OSC home page.