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SYSTEM NAME:
Defense Joint Military Pay System-Reserve Component  (March 05, 2013,  78 FR 14281)
SYSTEM LOCATION:
Defense Finance and Accounting Service - Indianapolis Center, 8899 E. 56th Street, Indianapolis, IN
46249-0001.
Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Cleveland, Reserve Center of Excellence, 1240 East Ninth
Street, Cleveland, OH 44199-2055.
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE SYSTEM:
Active Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, Army Reserve and National Guard members in a
military pay status. Active Naval reservists in pay and non-pay drill units; and Naval Reserve Officer
Training Corps students.
Reserve military on extended active duty are covered under the Defense Joint Military Pay System Active Component, system number T7340.
CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
Types of records: Wages and tax summaries; leave and earnings statements and other generated
records substantiating or authorizing Reserve Forces military pay and allowance entitlement,
deduction, or collection actions.
Pay entitlements and allowances: Base pay; allowances (such as basic allowance for subsistence,
basic allowance for quarters, family separations, clothing maintenance and monetary allowances);
special compensation for positions such as medical, dental, veterinary, and optometry; special pay
and bonus, such as foreign duty, proficiency, hostile fire, and diving duty; incentive pay such as
flying duty, parachute duty, and submarine duty; and other entitlements in accordance with the
DoD Financial Management Regulations, Volume 7A.
Deductions from pay: Federal and state income tax withholding rate and amount (including
authorization control files), withholding for Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA),
Serviceman's Group Life Insurance (SGLI) deductions, Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), voluntary
deductions, allotments (including allottee name and address, amount, term (in months), and
account or policy number), bond authorizations (including bond owner and co-owner/beneficiary
names and Social Security numbers, and recipient's address), health care coverage deductions, and
indebtedness and collections.
Other pay information: Name, pay grade, Social Security Number (SSN), Reserve Forces calendar
day performances (drill record), check issue, pay dates, leave account, payment address, and Form
W-2 address.

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Duty status: Status adjustments relating to leave, entrance on active duty, absent without leave,
confinement, desertion, sick or injured, mentally incompetent, missing, interned, promotions and
demotions, and separation document code.
Personnel information: Rank; enlistment contract or officer acceptance form identification; duty
information (duty station, personnel assignment, and unit); security investigation; test scores;
language proficiency; military and civilian off-duty education; training; awards; combat tours;
aviation, pilot, and flying time data; lineal precedence number; limited duty officer/warrant
officer footnote; temporary active duty data; power of attorney; years in service; promotional
data.
Personnel information: Date of birth, citizenship, marital status, home of record, dependent
information, record of emergency data, population group, sex, ethnic group, and health care
coverage.
Supporting documentation: Includes, but is not limited to, travel orders and requests; payroll
attendance lists and rosters; document records establishing, supporting, reducing, or canceling
entitlements; certificates and statements changing address, name, military assignment, and other
individual data necessary to identify and provide accurate and timely Air Reserve Forces military
pay and performance credit; allotment start, stop, or change records; declarations of benefits and
waivers; military pay and personnel orders; medical certifications and determinations; death and
disability documents; check issuing and cancellation records and schedules; payroll vouchers;
money lists and accounting records; pay adjustment authorization records; system input
certifications; member indebtedness and tax levy documentation; earnings statements; employees'
wage and tax reports and statements; casual payment authorization and control logs; and other
documentation authorizing or substantiating Reserve Forces military pay and allowances,
entitlements, deductions, or collections. Also inquiry files, sundry lists, reports, letters,
correspondence, and rosters including, but not limited to, Congressional inquiries, Internal
Revenue Service notices and reports, state tax and insurance reports, Social Security
Administration reports, Department of Veterans Affairs reports, Treasury Department reports, inter
-DoD requests, and health education and institution inquiries.
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:
5 U.S.C. 301, Departmental Regulations; 10 U.S.C., Chapter 11, Reserve Components; 37 U.S.C. Pay
and Allowances of the Uniformed Services; and E.O. 9397 (SSN), as amended.
PURPOSE(S):
To ensure accurate and timely pay and allowances to Active Reserve component military members
(including those who participate in Armed Forces Health Professional Scholarship Program, Basic
Military Training, and Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps programs) or payment to a financial
organization through electronic fund transfer program (including allotments and issuance and
cancellation of United States treasury checks and bonds); to document and account for reserve
military pay and allowance disbursements and collections; to verify and account for system input
transactions; to identify, correct, and collect overpayments; to establish, control, and maintain
member indebtedness notices and levies; to provide timely, complete master individual pay
account review; to provide internal and external managers with statistical and monetary reports
and to maintain a record of related personnel data.
ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND
THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
In addition to those disclosures generally permitted under 5 U.S.C. 552a(b) of the Privacy Act of
1974, as amended, these records contained therein may specifically be disclosed outside the DoD
as a routine use pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as follows:
To the Treasury Department to provide information on check issues and electronic funds transfers.
To the Internal Revenue Service to report taxable earnings and taxes withheld, accounting, and tax
audits; to compute or resolve tax liability or tax levies.
To the Social Security Administration to report earned wages by members for FICA; accounting or
tax audits; and death notices.

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To the Department of Veterans Affairs to report compensation, waivers, and audits, life insurance
accounting; disbursement and benefit determinations, death notices, and payroll information for
members who participated in making contributions to the Veterans Educational Assistance Program
(VEAP), the Montgomery GI Bill program, and Reserve Educational Assistance Program (REAP).
To National Guard Bureaus to furnish budget data to account for expenditures within established
categories.
To individual National Guard state associations to furnish reports and associated checks regarding
state sponsored life insurance premiums withheld or reimbursements from the state due to the
member.
To the American Red Cross and military relief societies to assist military personnel and their
dependents in determining the status of monthly pay, dependents' allotments, loans, and related
financial transactions, and to perform other relief-related duties as requested by the service
member.
To Federal Reserve banks to distribute payments made through the direct deposit system to
financial organizations or their processing agents authorized by individuals to receive and deposit
payments in their accounts.
To Federal, state, and local agencies to conduct computer matching programs regulated by the
Privacy Act of 1974 for those programs authorized by law.
To the Department of Justice in connection with litigation, law enforcement or other matters
under the legal representative of the Executive Branch agencies.
To Federal, state and local governmental agencies in response to an official request for
information with respect to law enforcement, investigatory procedures, criminal prosecution, civil
court action and regulatory order.
To Federal, state and local revenue departments to credit members for taxes withheld.
To the National Finance Center, Office of Thrift Savings Plan for participating service members.
To states to provide information in order to reimburse reservists for their payment of
Servicemember's Group Life Insurance (SGLI) premiums.
The Blanket Routine Uses published at the beginning of the DFAS compilation of systems of records
notices may apply to this system.
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND DISPOSING OF
RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:

STORAGE:
Electronic storage media.
RETRIEVABILITY:
Name and SSN.
SAFEGUARDS:
Records are stored in office buildings protected by guards, controlled screening, use of visitor
registers, electronic access, and/or locks. Access to records is limited to individuals who are
properly screened and cleared on a need-to-know basis in the performance of their official duties.
Passwords and digital signatures are used to control access to the systems data, and procedures are
in place to deter and detect browsing and unauthorized access. Physical and electronic access are
limited to persons responsible for servicing and authorized to use the record system.
RETENTION AND DISPOSAL:
Records may be temporary in nature and destroyed when actions are completed, superseded,
obsolete, or no longer needed. Other records may be cut off at the end of the payroll year or fiscal
year, and destroyed 6 years and 3 months after cutoff. Reserve pay records created prior to
automation were cut off on conversion to the Joint Uniformed Military Payroll System (JUMPS), and

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will be destroyed 56 years after the year in which created. Records created after conversion to
Defense Joint Military Pay System - Reserve Component (DJMS-RC) are cut off at end of payroll year
and destroyed 56 years after year in which created. The records are destroyed by tearing,
shredding, pulping, macerating, burnings or degaussing the electronic storage media.
SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS:
Director, Military Pay Operations, Military and Civilian Pay Services, Defense Finance and
Accounting Service, Indianapolis, 8899 East 56th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46249.
NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE:
Individuals seeking to determine whether information about themselves is contained in this record
system should address written inquiries to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Freedom of
Information/Privacy Act Program Manager, Corporate Communications, DFAS-ZCF/IN, 8899 E. 56th
Street, Indianapolis, IN 46249-0150.
Requests should contain individual's full name, SSN, current address, and provide a reasonable
description of what they are seeking.
RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:
Individuals seeking access to information about themselves contained in this record system should
address written inquiries to Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Freedom of
Information/Privacy Act Program Manager, Corporate Communications, DFAS-ZCF/IN, 8899 E. 56th
Street, Indianapolis, IN 46249-0150.
Request should contain individual's full name, SSN, current address, and telephone number.
CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) rules for accessing records, for contesting
contents and appealing initial agency determinations are published in Defense Finance and
Accounting Service Regulation 5400.11-R, 32 CFR 324; or may be obtained from the Defense
Finance and Accounting Service, Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Program Manager, Corporate
Communications, DFAS-ZCF/IN, 8899 E. 56th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46249-0150.
RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:
Individual members; DoD staff and field installations; recruiting, disbursing, and administrative
offices; allotment and bond authorization forms; Social Security Administration, Treasury
Department, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, and other federal agencies;
financial, medical, and educational institutions; DoD components; the on-line Allotment/Bond
Authorization process, and the End-User Computer Equipment (EUCE); and state and local agencies.
EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM:
None.
FEDERAL REGISTER HISTORY:
March 21, 2006, 71 FR 14182; March 5, 2013, 78 FR 14281.

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