Employee Self-Service: One-stop Access to Online Benefit, Pay, and Retirement Resources

By now you have probably had reason to visit the Employee Self Service (ESS) web page, an ongoing effort to provide Montgomery County Public Schools employees with easier access to online benefit, pay, and retirement forms and other resources. But are you aware of all of the web page’s offerings?

By visiting ESS, you can select—

• My profile, to view your name, employee ID, address, and sick bank membership information;
• My Salary Information Notice, to review your salary and position information;
• My current benefits, to review your yearly benefit plan;
• Tobacco attestation, to re-attest to your tobacco-use status;
• Benefits enrollment for new employees, where new employees sign up for benefits;
• My ePaystub, to view and print your current and most recent ePaystubs;
• My ePaystubs prior to April 29, 2016, to view and print your archived ePaystubs;
• My direct deposit, to visit the Direct Deposit web page to see instructions for enrolling in or making a change to your direct deposit account(s);
• My W-2s, to view and print your W-2 tax forms from 2011 and later;
• My 1095-Cs, to view and print your 1095-C tax form;
• My W-4, to change your income tax withholding allowances;
• PenPoint, to access your yearly retirement Benefit Statement and estimate your MCPS core and supplemental retirement benefit amounts;
• Retirement planning, to visit the web page containing information and links to help you prepare for retirement; and
• Retirement savings plans, which takes you to the MCPS Fidelity Investments website.

Be sure to visit ESS whenever you need to access these resources!