Back Pay 

When an employee does not have sufficient funds in the account for which he or she is responsible to receive a full paycheck, the employee incurs a "shortcheck" for the earnings that were not able to be paid. Short checked earnings are accrued and tracked by Reliant as "backpay" that an employee is eligible to receive in the event that he or she has excess funds in the account for which he or she is responsible in a pay period, after Reliant fully pays the current month's wages and payroll expenses. Reliant will generally compensate employees for back pay which has been acquired within the current year and past two years, subject to an employee fulfilling his or her obligation to raise the required amount of support for Reliant. See Toolbox for instructions on how to view backpay amounts.

Paystubs:

It will show up as SHORT CHECK on your original paystub to give you a total of how much you have been shorted on this check or year to date.

Then, you will receive any eligible backpay (assuming you have available funds) on a separate paystub and that will show up as:

• Back Pay Current Year
• Back Pay Last Year
• Back Pay 2nd Year

Back Parsonage

In the case of a Reliant commissioned/ordained minister or pastor who does not have sufficient funds in the account for which he or she is responsible to receive his or her approved parsonage, "back parsonage" is not available. Instead of issuing a shortcheck for the parsonage and creating "back parsonage," Reliant will reduce the parsonage amount to the maximum amount that is available to be paid.  The difference in the reduced parsonage amount that was paid out and the approved parsonage amount will be converted to a pro-rated salary amount, which is then shortchecked (along with any other taxable earnings on the paystub, for which sufficient funds were not available to pay out).  The shortchecked pro-rated amount becomes "backpay" just like any other backpay the employee may incur. This backpay will be eligible for payment based on the standard backpay payment procedure detailed above.  If the commissioned minister/pastor is also a 401(k) participant (not including Roth participants) or has pre-tax benefits or deductions (for example Cafeteria Plan items - vision insurance, childcare deductions, HSA contributions) Reliant will also reclassify a portion of the employee's parsonage as "taxable" earnings which would then be converted to "nontaxable" earnings by the 401(k) contributions or other pre-tax benefits and deductions.