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USPS Process Guide –
Introduction –
Getting Started with USPS

Introduction

Uniform Statewide Payroll/Personnel System (USPS) is the online payroll and personnel system for the state of Texas. USPS allows you to:

  • access payroll and human resource data online
  • perform real-time maintenance
  • move between tasks and modules quickly and easily, and
  • use common procedures for working with your data in each task and module.

Support

The Comptroller’s office provides the following assistance to USPS users:

  • provides a help desk to assist with functional and technical questions – (512) 463-4008
  • maintains the system tables
  • clears accumulators
  • produces monthly, quarterly and year-end reports (request reports online), and
  • produces other reports as requested or required by USPS agencies.

Additional information on USPS including daily updates may be found online at the FMX website

Access

Contact your agency security coordinator for access to USPS.

Passwords

USPS security allows you to establish your own password. Use the following guidelines to establish your password:

  • do not write your password down
  • do not use the names of family or friends as passwords, and
  • do not re-use an old password until your password has changed at least four times.

Password Resets

Contact your agency security coordinator to reset your password. When you sign on with the password provided by your security coordinator, you will immediately be required to change the password.

Changing Your Password

You must change your password once every 90 days or when you suspect confidentiality may have been compromised. Follow the steps below to change your password:

Step Action
1 Enter USAS on the Texas map screen and press Enter. The Security screen appears. (Some users will arrive directly at the Security screen, depending on how their computers are configured.)
2 Enter your user identification number and press Tab to move to the PASSWORD field.
3 Enter your old password in the PASSWORD field, then press Tab to move to the NEW PASSWORD field.
4 Enter your new password in the NEW PASSWORD field, then press Tab to move to the VERIFY NEW PASSWORD field.
5 Enter your new password again and press Enter.

If both entries of your new password match, the system changes your password.

Note: To protect your confidentiality, neither your old password nor your new password will show up on the screen as you type.