{"id":21799,"date":"2020-12-21T20:37:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T20:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/12\/21\/feds-get-extended-payroll-tax-timeline-likely-pay-increase-in-2021\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:41:50","slug":"feds-get-extended-payroll-tax-timeline-likely-pay-increase-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/management\/pay-benefits\/2020\/12\/21\/feds-get-extended-payroll-tax-timeline-likely-pay-increase-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds get extended payroll tax timeline, likely pay increase in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2021 omnibus spending package, which Congress unveiled Monday and plans to vote on the same day, would give federal employees and members of the military a longer timetable for paying back the payroll taxes<\/a> that were deferred for the last few months of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal employees saw slightly larger paychecks during the final pay periods of the year as part of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in early August. Those extra funds came from deferring but not cancelling normal Social Security deductions taken out of each paycheck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And though most of the private sector opted not to participate in the program, federal employees and members of the military were automatically enrolled, a move that angered members of Congress and federal employee groups for simply shifting the burden of those payments from one part of the year to another, without the ability to opt out of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\t