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Use the Benefits Enrollment self-service action to enter your medical, dental, and optional benefit choices and then submit them to Employee Benefits. Contact Employee Benefits with any questions you have about signing up.

View and update your benefits information. You can access your benefits summary, dependent information, and flexible spending account balances throughout the year. If you have a life change that allows you to make benefits changes, use Benefits Self-Service to submit those changes.

View and update your direct deposit information. If you don't have easy access to the internet to view and update your direct deposit online, you can submit a paper Direct Deposit Authorization Form to Payroll Services at 1300 S. 2nd Street, Suite 545, Minneapolis, MN 55454. Please note that you can only use the paper form to update your direct deposit to a single bank account. If you want to deposit your pay into several different bank accounts, you must enroll online.

The University of Minnesota offers an automated employment verification service that allows employees to have employment and salary verified within a matter of minutes. This service is provided through a secure, third-party product called The Work Number. This fast, secure service is used for mortgage applications, reference checks, loan applications, apartment lease applications, or any reason you may have to verify your University of Minnesota employment information.

If you have a Health Care or Dependent Care Reimbursement Account, you can view your account balance, claims history and reimbursement statements. A statement is available online as soon as a reimbursement is processed, and an e-mail is immediately sent to you confirming that a reimbursement has been processed.

You can access statements for the last two years beginning on January 1, 2004. If you use payroll direct deposit and have elected to not receive printed statements, you will also not receive printed Flexible Spending reimbursement statements.

Faculty and P & A employees can view their Notice of Appointment information as soon as it is entered into the PeopleSoft Human Resources system. You can view details about current, future and past appointments. You can access notices for the last two years beginning on June 16, 2003.

Pay statements are available online two days prior to pay day. Pay is not actually deposited into your bank account until pay day. Those individuals who are paid from multiple companies (e.g., University of Minnesota and UM Physicians), or have adjustments, may show more than one pay statement for a pay period. You can access pay statements from the last 104 bi-weekly pay periods.

Use the Paycheck Calculator to estimate what your net pay, or "take-home" pay, would be based on changes you might make to your W-4 information or deductions. Always use your most current pay statement as a guide when using the Paycheck Calculator. It has your correct gross pay, deductions and taxable benefits to be used in the net pay calculation.

View your expense reimbursement and payment statements from the Controller's Office for travel expenses and advances, miscellaneous business expenses, subject advances and payments, and royalty payments. A statement is available online as soon as a reimbursement/payment is processed, and an email is immediately sent to you confirming that a reimbursement/payment has been processed.

You can access statements for the last two years beginning on January 1, 2004. If you use payroll direct deposit and have elected to not receive printed statements, you will also not receive printed expense reimbursements or payment statements.

View your current retirement account contribution rates, the contribution you made for the last pay period, and your year-to-date contribution amount.

Register for classes offered by the Office of Human Resources and Environmental Health and Safety. You can view course descriptions, dates, and locations. Training Registration will also keep track of the courses you have registered for or completed from these departments. You can also record classes you have registered for or completed that were offered by other departments.

Training Registration does not track any for-credit classes you have taken. For information about your official transcript, or to register for credit courses, use the Office of the Registrar's Web site.

Update the official University listing of your home address, telephone numbers, degrees earned and more. You also choose to suppress (exclude) your home address and phone number from the online and paper directories. You'll also find your Internet account options and password here.

Any changes you make online will automatically be forwarded to the online directory, and your address change will be sent to Payroll Services.

View your current sick and vacation leave balance.

Access and print your Form W-2 from the past three tax years. Your Form W-2 will be available for each tax year by January 31st the following year. More information about the Form W-2 is available at How to Read Your W-2 in the Compensation section of this Web site .

View your Form W-4 showing your vital tax withholding information. Using the W-4 Self-Service Action, you can quickly and simply change the number of withholding allowances and other information, such as a change in marital status, on your W-4.

The W-4 allowances you claim determine the federal and state taxes that are withheld from your gross pay each period. For more information about deductions, see Pay & Taxes in the Compensation section of this Web site.