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If you apply for certain loans, such as that for a house, a specified number of current pay stubs are usually required. I would continuously keep 4 weeks of them, rotating them out of the file and shred them as I received a new up to date one.
I keep mine for a year so I can verify that everything is on my W-2 copacetic, then I toss them. One year I received an incorrect W-2 as a result of a midyear accounting change so I don't think it's a bad idea. I can't think of any reason to keep them beyond that, though, unless you want to keep some for reference because have some reason to believe that your employer might try to monkey with your wages or withholdings.
I keep mine for a year so I can verify that everything is on my W-2 copacetic, then I toss them. One year I received an incorrect W-2 as a result of a midyear accounting change so I don't think it's a bad idea. I can't think of any reason to keep them beyond that, though, unless you want to keep some for reference because have some reason to believe that your employer might try to monkey with your wages or withholdings.
This makes sense - my company went through a merger this year so there were changes to pay scale, etc, I will hold on to these for a year.
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I found one from 1975 one day in a box in the back of the closet, $3/hour, worked 60 hours in a week and no overtime pay.
I have automatic deposit and have t print the stubs online from the HR system if I want them, which I usually don't do. Other than sad memories I can't see any use for them if I can get them online and keep W2s.
Funny you should ask because I needed ether pay stubs or a w-2 to prove to an employer that I worked for them a long time ago so that they could verify my employment. Luckily I just happened to have them.
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