We are aware that many of you have had issues with your pay for the week of January 14th. The State of Ohio had computer issues last week resulting in inaccurate late pay files. This caused many of you to be paid an incorrect amount last week. The State has assured us that these issues have been resolved and Independent Providers will receive their normal pay this Thursday, as well as any amounts owed to them for last week. The Union can only issue payments to Independent Providers from files submitted to us by the State of Ohio. This was not just an Independent Provider issue, pay issues occurred to a wide variety of State of Ohio payee’s including employees of State of Ohio.

For those Independent Providers who had double deductions for benefit policies for the month of January, the amount is being refunded to you this pay January 21, 2010.