Biweekly and monthly off-cycle payroll requests submitted July 22-25 will confirm on July 31, with a payment issue date of August 1, 2025.

On July 29 at 2:00 p.m., UCPath has completed monthly pay confirm (250731M0X) for PPE 7/31/2025. 

Location teams may resume PayPath, manage job and position management transactions for monthly employees and mass PayPath and Manage HR entries for both biweekly and monthly employees. 

UCPath’s monthly pay confirm (250731M0X) process was delayed by approximately 7 hours. It is now complete.

Following the July 2025 release, some users are experiencing a UCPath service disruption. 

On July 14 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., UCPath will be temporarily unavailable to perform system maintenance and improve performance.

The General and Employment Liability (GAEL) premium fee structure and rates were significantly updated for Fiscal Year 2025-2026.  

Multiple premiums and their associated rates have been consolidated into a singular rate for most of campus; the Composite GAEL Rate or CGR. Here are ways this change will affect the General Ledger and related processes.

The final submission an approval date for Direct Retro transactions is July 1, 2025. 

Position funding transactions may resume, the FYE 2025 funding rollover has completed.

Please do not update position funding during the upcoming transaction freezes for FYE 2025 funding rollover.

As a reminder, to qualify for the inactive Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) increase, eligible UC Retirement Plan (UCRP) benefit recipients must be retired one day prior to July 1, with a minimum of one business day not on active HR or Payroll status.

UCPath is sharing key reminders related to disability insurance and dependent reverification. To help reduce confusion, lower case volume and support timely employee action, please share this with your employees.

UCPath introduced a rolling 5-year data filter for global case searches in Ask UCPath. To access cases beyond the 5-year window, users will need to use the new Historical Cases data filter. 

The Direct Retro tool will be retired in the near future. The last day to submit and approve transactions through Direct Retro will be July 1, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. (PDT).  
 

In April 2025, UCPath contacted 6,000+ UC employees regarding the UC Benefits Family Member Eligibility Reverification process with third party vendor, UnifyHR. 

Through November 2025, UC will continue efforts to confirm the continuing eligibility of some previously verified family members.

Starting March 1, 2025, UC will conduct eligibility reverification of some enrolled family members.

UCPath identified an issue where Vacation Leave Assessment (VLA) reversal was not generated for Salary Cost Transfer (SCT) on paychecks created between July 14, 2024 and November 25, 2024.

On February 11, UCPath notified eligible nonresident aliens regarding Tax Treaty Income and/or Postdoc Fellowship income. 

Current and former employees are now able to access their 2024 W-2 form online via UCPath. Online forms will also be available to employees who requested to receive a paper form. 

The UCPath Center discovered a Salary Cost Transfer (SCT) processing issue which resulted in incorrect deductions recorded on location journals.

General and Employment Liability (GAEL) charges were incorrectly posted to department redirect accounts for payroll runs 241130M0X and 241123B1X. Learn more. 

Exciting news! UCPath recently launched an update to the Person Organizational Summary page, which allows provisioned UCPath users to view an individual's UC Employee or Contingent Worker assignments.