RETIRE 20-02, Submission of Retirement Cases in ServiceNow

Published: June 18, 2020
Effective: Pay Period 11, 2020

Summary

The National Finance Center (NFC) is excited to announce the capability for authorized Agency representatives to utilize NFC’s ServiceNow self-service portal to create service requests for retirement and military service deposits. The new ServiceNow catalogs were made available to the Agencies as of June 1, 2020. This ServiceNow implementation includes the following types of documents:

Creating tickets via the ServiceNow self-service portal provides both NFC and Agencies with the following benefits:

Concurrent with this new functionality, NFC's Retirement Processing Section (RPS) and Military Deposit and Reconciliation Section (MDRS) will be transitioning away from accepting customer requests via individual NFC email accounts, as well as the RPS and MDRS mailboxes. NFC will also conduct a validation of Agency submitters within 60 days of implementation to ensure all Agencies have the access they need going forward.

Agencies should begin entering cases and inquiries via ServiceNow starting June 1, 2020. The full implementation for case submissions will be completed by June 8, 2020, and the full implementation of inquiries will be completed by August 1, 2020.

Our internal process will remain the same during this transition period. Beginning August 1, 2020, any inquiries received via email boxes (e.g., RPS@usda.gov and MDRS@usda.gov) will be returned to the Agency unprocessed.

Affected Systems

System

System Impact

ServiceNow

Updated to accept retirement and military service deposit cases.

Implementation

Modifications have been made to update ServiceNow for the electronic submission of retirement and military service deposit cases via ServiceNow. The flow of retirement processing is outlined below.

Retirement Processing via ServiceNow:

  1. NFC receives annuity cases with attachments from the Agency via ServiceNow.
  2. The technician verifies the attachments.
  3. The application is entered in the Retirement System (RETM).
  4. The technician processes the retirement package (Individual Retirement Record (IRR) and supporting documents).
  5. The nightly cycle processes.
  6. The Electronic Data Exchange Gateway (DEG) file is transmitted to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
  7. The IRR card is generated by RETM.
  8. The technician completes the ServiceNow Request.
  9. The Register and supporting final files are sent to OPM via Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).

Resources

Authorized Agency representatives can find the new service request catalogs on the ServiceNow Web site at https://nfcerp.servicenowservices.com/sp_ess for non-Federated users and https://nfcerp.servicenowservices.com for Federated users.

For your convenience, the NFC Business Service Management ServiceNow Customer Service Portal User Guide can be found at https://nfc.usda.gov/contact/index.php.

The procedure manual for this application, which is available online at the NFC Web site, is being updated to include the information in this bulletin. To view this procedure, select HR and Payroll Clients from the MyNFC drop-down menu on the NFC Home page. At the HR and Payroll Clients page, select the Publications tab and select the applicable category to access the procedure manual within the category.

Inquiries

Authorized Agency representatives should log in to the ServiceNow portal to validate their access, review the new Retirement and Military Service Deposit catalog items, and provide any questions to the ServiceNow Team at Snow.Group@usda.gov.

For questions about NFC processing, authorized Servicing Personnel Office representatives should contact the NFC Contact Center at 1-855-NFC-4GOV (1-855-632-4468) or via ServiceNow.