Farm Credit Updates Payroll Privacy: Snooze-Inducing Record Tweaks
Published Date: 10/15/2026
Notice
Summary
The Farm Credit Administration is updating its employee attendance, leave, and payroll records system to improve how it stores and protects your info. If you work with or for the FCA, these changes affect how your data is handled. You can share your thoughts by November 14, 2026, before the updates take effect on November 24, 2026—no extra costs involved!
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Payroll and benefits info may be shared for processing
FCA may disclose payroll and related information to Federal, State, and local taxing authorities; the Office of Personnel Management; Department of the Treasury; Department of Labor; Federal employees' health benefits carriers; and financial organizations to process pay, benefits, and retirement or to manage savings allotments and net pay to checking accounts. These routine disclosures are described in the notice.
Records can be disclosed for child support, tax offset, and credit reporting
FCA may disclose information from this system to the Office of Child Support Enforcement and the Federal Parent Locator System (FPLS) to locate individuals and identify income sources, to the Federal Tax Offset System, and to consumer reporting agencies under applicable law. The notice states these disclosures may be used for establishing or enforcing child support, tax offset, and related enforcement actions.
Which people are in FCA’s payroll system
If you are a current or former FCA or FCSIC employee, someone who has been extended and accepted a formal offer of employment by the Agency, or contractor personnel, your payroll, attendance, and leave records are covered in the FCA-1 system. The records include items such as name, title, employee number, Social Security number, pay rates and amounts, tax and retirement deductions, leave balances, and home and mailing addresses.
Records moved to computerized database
FCA states the Employee Attendance, Leave, and Payroll Records system is maintained in a computerized database and that Policies and Practices for Storage and Administrative, Technical, and Physical Safeguards were revised to reflect a transition from physical to electronic records. The notice says safeguards include user roles, passwords, firewalls, encryption, and other information technology security measures.
You can access and contest your records
You may obtain access to records and request amendments by contacting the Privacy Act Officer at Farm Credit Administration, as provided in 12 CFR part 603. The notice provides contact information and specifies procedures for record access and contesting records.
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