The Defense Accounting and Finance Service, which provides
payroll services to Defense Department civilian and military
personnel and military retirees, is carrying out a new policy
from the Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller and the Under
Secretary of Defense Personnel and Readiness directing all
military departments and all defense civilian employees to
support the policy to eliminate paper copies of LES and W-2
tax statements.
The policy aims to reduce the risk of identity theft associated
with postal delivery of those statements.
Under the new policy, military members and civilian
non-bargaining employees who log on to the myPay website after
September 1, 2005, are consenting to receive electronic copies
of their documents. Bargaining unit civilians will be brought
onto this system as soon as local negotiations are completed.
MyPay has provided military members and civilian employees with
a secure method to view, print, and save their LES, W-2 or
1099s electronically for years. In addition to obtaining
electronic copies of LES’ and tax statements, customers can make
adjustments to federal and state tax withholdings and update
bank account and electronic transfers by accessing myPay at
htps://mypay.dfas.mil.
