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<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Payroll Professionals,</div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">FYI - the E701-030-A OUTSTANDING CHECKS TO BE PURGED FROM CHECK RECON report will be updated today.</div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">The reports lists outstanding checks, issued prior to July 1, 2018, that have become stale-dated is now on your PDF reports menu. Please make sure you have the report dated 08/20/2020. If you do not see this
report under your Quarterly and Yearly Run menu, then you do not have any stale dated checks.</div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Prior to OSPS reporting these checks as Unclaimed Property to the Department of State Lands, state agencies must exercise due diligence in an effort to find the rightful owner of the check (reference ORS 98.352).
Your goal is to contact the payee, request that they cash the check or assist them in completing a Lost Check Replacement Form.</div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Agencies Due Diligence Responsibilities</div>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Required for checks with a value of $100 or more (highly recommend for all checks)</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Required for all current employees regardless of the amount of the check. (You cannot turn over to State Lands if a current employee or vendor/Agency)</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Make at least one attempt to contact the owner of the check no later than August 30, 2020</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">You may not charge the check owner for your efforts</li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Effective Methods to Locate Payee if Not a Current Employee </div>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Phone directories</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Internet</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Letter to last known address</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">State records</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Workday</li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Retain Documentation of Your Effort </div>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Keep records of your search for 5 years</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Document phone calls to or from the payee</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Letters to or from the payee </li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Returned mail</li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">By August 31, 2020 complete your due diligence in attempting to locate the owner of the check. If a check needs to be cancelled/stopped and rewritten, please send OSPS the appropriate form prior to September 6,
2020. Also, no later than September 15 return a copy of your original list with notations regarding the results of your efforts.</div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">If you have any questions regarding the list, appropriate forms, timelines or responsibilities please contact Tim Wheeler, OSPS Accountant at 503-373-0219 or by email to <a href="mailto:Tim.A.WHEELER@oregon.gov"><font color="#0563C1"><u>Tim.A.WHEELER@oregon.gov</u></font></a>.</div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Thank you for your cooperation and attention to this annual task,</div>
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