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October 15, 2004 Newsletter

Table of Contents
---Profiles
---University replacing mailed pay stubs with online option
---Digital Image Act Spells End of Check 'Float'
---John Woodford invites all to his retirement party
---ABPAFS PRE-ELECTION PANEL
---Web Sites of Interest
    *Study: Black Poor working hard, but earning less
    *The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
     * Woman Thou Art Loosed.

Profiles
Linda Chatters, associate professor of social work and public health, and faculty associate with the Program for Research on Black Americans at the Institute for Social Research and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, has been selected a fellow of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Fellowship status is recognition by peers in GSA for outstanding contributions to the field of gerontology and represents the highest class of membership. Chatters will be inducted at the GSA's 57th annual scientific meetings Nov. 19-23 in Washington, D.C.
Paula Allen Meares,
dean and the Norma Radin Collegiate Professor of Social Work, and professor of education, has been named to a panel the New York Academy of Medicine is convening to study how to move health professions toward more effectively meeting the evolving health care needs of the American people—particularly the needs of an aging population increasingly facing chronic illness.

Carmen M. Harrison
Program Adminstrator for the Summer Enrichment Program at the School of Public Health. Ms. Harrison has lived in the Ypsilanti area for about 11 years, but still considers herself a Detroiter.
She attended Wayne State University and Eastern University and holds a BS degree in Education and a MA degree in Art Management.
This past August she began her seventh year managing the Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) and enjoys working with young adults immensely.
She is also an avid jazz fan and has an adult son who's married and lives in Kansas City, MO.

 

University replacing mailed pay stubs with online option

By June 2005, all monthly paid employees will have received notification that their hard copy direct deposit pay stubs no longer will be mailed automatically to their homes.
Before the hard copy direct deposit pay stub is eliminated, individuals will receive an e-mail notification. Each month after that, they will receive an e-mail advising them that their pay stub information is ready to be viewed electronically and instructing them on how to access the information.

Employees need to know their uniqname and UMICH (Kerberos) password to access their personal information. The ITCS Accounts Office (http://www.itcs.umich.edu/accounts/) can provide assistance to employees who do not know their UMICH password.

This self-service feature will reduce the number of printed direct deposit advices mailed to employee homes each month. The University mailed pay stub information to 42,000 employees before this service started.

Pay stub and other personal information is available on Wolverine Access Monday through Friday from 7 a.m.-2 am, Saturday from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sunday from noon-midnight. For information about all the self-service functions currently offered, visit http://www.umich.edu/~hraa/ebusiness/.

Effective October 28, 2004
Digital Image Act Spells End of Check 'Float'

A new law, called Check 21, facilitates the electronic exchange of checks, which will permit quicker and safer processing of checks. What is Check 21? The check clearing for the 21st Century Act, commonly known as Check 21 is legislation that will revolutionize the check-processing world. Signed into law on October 28, 2003, and effective October 28, 2004. Check 21 encourages image based processing. This law mandates that a financial institution:

  • Accept substitute checks
  • Treat substitute checks as legal equivalents of an original paper check
  • Provide informational notices to consumers
  • Adopt new expedited re-credit procedures for substitute checks

Specifically, the act creates a new legal instrument called a substitute check, which allows financial institutions to truncate the original paper check to process the check information electronically and to deliver substitute checks to financial institutions that want to continue receiving paper checks. Under the act, a financial institution no longer can demand the original paper check, but instead receive a substitute check.

Some checks will clear more quickly because the processing will be done electronically. And, new technology will reduce the time between the money leaving your account and reaching the recipient of the checks. Make sure you have money in your account to cover your checks. Your credit union will be glad to answer any questions you may have about checks or your checking account.

Check 21 ends the float time for checks to clear, freeing up banks to use digital copies of checks in place of paper. Called image replacement documents (IRD), they have the same legal status as their paper predecessors.

The digital image checks clear immediately. Paper checks generally require a day or two to be processed.

 

John Woodford invites all to his retirement party October 18, 2004 from 3-5 pm in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union. John is a past president of ABPAFS and current member of the executive board. John is the Executive Editor, Michigan Today. You should reply to Barbara Wilson at bjwilson@umich.edu

ABPAFS IS SPONSORING A PRE-ELECTION PANEL DISCUSSION

The panel will be October 28th at the Trotter House from 4-6.
The panel will include, Ms. Veronica Johnson, Michigan Legislative Black Caucus [D] and Pastor Yuille, Chair, Black Republican Council of Southeastern Michigan [R] and other invited guests. Details will coming in the next newsletter

 

 

 

WEB SITES OF INTEREST

WORKING HARD,
FALLING SHORT
America’s Working Families
and the Pursuit of Economic Security
Study: Black Poor working hard, but earning less

Black people make up more than 13 percent of the U.S. population. But they make up 20 percent of the 9.2 million families who work for wages so low that day-to-day survival is a struggle, according to researchers who compiled a report released Tuesday by a group of national non-profit organizations.


The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF) was established in 1976 as a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy, research and educational institute. As envisioned by its founders, the CBCF's mission is to serve as the non-partisan policy oriented catalyst that educates future leaders and promotes collaboration among legislators, business leaders, minority-focused organizational leaders, and organized labor to effect positive and sustainable change in the African American community.


“Woman Thou Art Loosed.”

From the bestselling book and stage play
comes the film adaptation of Woman,
Thou Art Loosed—Bishop T.D. Jakes’ tale
of pain, injustice, forgiveness, and redemption.This is the story of Michelle Jordan (Kimberly Elise), a young woman who loses her childhood to abuse at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend, Reggie (Clifton Powell), while her mother, Cassey (Loretta Devine), looks the other way.
Michelle’s bitterness and unresolved hurt propel her into the abyss of
drugs, prostitution, and eventually prison.

The movie is playing at
Showcase Ann Arbor
4100 Carpenter Rd.
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
734-973-8380

 

 

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