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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">PERS Data Verifications<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">The DAS Centralized PERS Services Team has experienced an increase in PERS Data Verification requests. We expect the volume to continue to increase on a
go forward basis. A couple of changes are being implemented to accommodate this increased workload.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">DAS Centralized PERS Services Responsibility
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">In order to assist agencies with identifying these priority emails, the email we send to agencies will be marked with a high priority flag and the subject line will
contain the words “Data Verification” and the date the information is due back to our team. Agencies will no longer receive follow up reminder emails from us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Agency Responsibility</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Respond to the request by the due date
on the subject line and contained in the attached documentation. If your agency wants additional staff included on the Data Verification emails, please notify your DAS Centralized PERS Services Analyst with updated contact information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Thank you for assisting us in complying with this mandatory verification process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">The DAS Centralized PERS Services Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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