PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. – In PGCPS, some educators and support staff have been reporting complaints regarding their paychecks; some getting too much and facing wage garnishments later, and others not receiving their checks or reimbursements in full.
After some PGCPS employees accidentally received double their pay and adamantly attempted to return the excess, that excess is being deducted from their current paychecks. They are even facing the deduction of their gross pay, rather than post-tax pay. This is reducing each paycheck received by affected individuals by $200.
“When I emailed payroll questioning the double payment, I was told that my payment was correct,” said Terita McCoy, who works in the school system’s security division. She and a supervisor, Stanley Brown, both reported issues with their payment last summer.
“I know that it was not correct, so I emailed them several times. I reached out via the phone and said ‘Hey, do you know what’s going on?’”
Other teachers in PGCPS have alleged underpayment and unnecessary delays in receiving tuition reimbursement.
“There are extremely long delays in processing that movement on the salary scale. It takes another five payroll cycles. So that’s about 10 weeks to get the retroactive pay from the delay in processing,” said PGCEA President Dr. Donna Christy in response to the ongoing issues.
PGCPS CEO Dr. Millard House II and Board of Education members have spoken against a proposed budgetary measure that would, in effect, count additional County revenues as prior investments into education, thus reducing the amount of new funding that must be provided to education. House warned that this could potentially cost hundreds of jobs.
We have previously covered PGCPS budget issues; read more here.
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