The Defense Finance and Accounting Service, which acts as the payroll agent for nearly half the executive branch workforce, has set its schedule for paying out the retroactive pay raise for this year that in most cases will cause an increase in pay of about 2 percentage points above the increases that took effect in January. It said the raises for general schedule Army, Air Force and Navy employees are being processed over the course of two pay periods, ending with the pay period that ends April 3. Personnel offices are responsible for processing pay corrections for any personnel actions that have occurred since the effective date of the raise, January 11. Personnel offices also are responsible for initiating increases for wage grade employees, who are paid at varying times of a fiscal year depending on pay studies done in their localities.