The National Finance Center (NFC) is a federal government agency division under the

United States Department of Agriculture The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food. It aims to meet the needs of comme ...

that provides

human resources Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. Similar terms includ ...

, financial and administrative services for agencies of the

United States federal government The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, a city within a fed ...

. NFC's customer base is composed of more than 130 federal organizations, representing all three branches of the government. NFC is a designated Shared Service Center provider under the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Human Resources Line of Business initiative. NFC's HR system suite supports core system services such as payroll and personnel action processing, as well as related HR operational services such as recruitment and position classification. * NFC operates an integrated payroll/personnel system. * NFC operates the Centralized Enrollment Clearinghouse System (CLER) for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). CLER reconciles records between federal payroll offices and Federal Employee Health Benefits providers. * NFC operates the Direct Premium Remittance System (DPRS), which is used for billing and collecting

health insurance Health insurance or medical insurance (also known as medical aid in South Africa) is a type of insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses. As with other types of insurance, risk is shared among m ...

premiums. NFC was established in 1973 and is located in

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

. NFC is part of

USDA The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food. It aims to meet the needs of comme ...

's Office of the Chief Financial Officer. NFC provides many jobs to federal employees in the New Orleans office, which is located at

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...

Michoud Assembly Facility The Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) is an manufacturing complex owned by NASA in New Orleans East, a district within New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. Organizationally it is part of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and is curren ...

in New Orleans.

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* {{authority control Agencies of the United States government United States Office of Personnel Management United States Department of Agriculture Economy of New Orleans