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DFAS acts to protect against identity theft

Feb-14-2004 » Filed Under: General Military

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By Karen Jowers
Times staff writer

To help protect service members, Defense Department civilians and military retirees from identity theft, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service will begin dropping the first five digits of Social Security numbers from all leave-and-earnings statements and other pay statements.

The change will take place “over the next couple of pay periods,” said Patrick Shine, acting director of DFAS, in a Feb. 13 statement...

The change applies to all hard-copy leave-and-earnings and other pay statements, such as retirees’ annual account statements. It does not apply to other printed items, such as checks, but officials are reviewing that policy as well.

The change does not apply to electronic copies of statements found on myPay, the DFAS online system.


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