Tier Schedules Fiscal Year 2009 Third Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call

RESTON, Va., July 30, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tier Technologies, Inc.
(Nasdaq:TIER) will announce financial results for the fiscal 2009 third quarter
ended June 30, 2009 on Thursday, August 6, 2009.

Ronald L. Rossetti, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Ronald W. Johnston,
Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call on Thursday, August 6, 2009
at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the Company's quarterly and year-to-date
results.

To access the conference call, please dial (888) 335-3240 and provide conference
ID #22177721. The conference call will also be broadcast live via the Internet
at www.tier.com. Please go to the web site at least fifteen minutes prior to the
call to register, download and install any necessary audio software.

For those who cannot access the live broadcast, a replay will be available at
www.tier.com, or by calling (800) 642-1687 and entering conference ID #22177721,
from 8 p.m., Thursday, August 6, 2009 until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on August
20, 2009.

About Tier Technologies, Inc.

Tier Technologies, Inc. primarily provides federal, state and local government
and other public sector clients with electronic payment solutions. Headquartered
in Reston, Virginia, Tier Technologies serves over 3,300 electronic payment
clients throughout the United States, including federal, state, and local
governments, educational institutions, utilities and commercial clients. Through
its subsidiary, Official Payments Corporation, Tier delivers electronic payment
solutions for a wide range of markets. For more information, see www.tier.com
and www.officialpayments.com.

Statements made in this press release that are not historical facts are
forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions
of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Tier undertakes no
obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Each of these
statements is made as of the date hereof based only on current information and
expectations that are inherently subject to change and involve a number of risks
and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ materially from those
projected in any of such statements due to various factors, including, but not
limited to: the impact of governmental investigations; the potential loss of
funding by clients, including due to government budget shortfalls or revisions
to mandated statutes; the timing, initiation, completion, renewal, extension or
early termination of client projects; the Company's ability to realize revenues
from its business development opportunities; the timing and completion of the
divestment of the Company's non-core assets; and unanticipated claims as a
result of project performance, including due to the failure of software
providers or subcontractors to satisfactorily complete engagements. For a
discussion of these and other factors which may cause our actual events or
results to differ from those projected, please refer to the Company's quarterly
report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2009 filed with the SEC.

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CONTACT: Tier Technologies, Inc.
Ronald Johnston, Chief Financial Officer
(571) 382-1000
rjohnston@tier.com