In order to properly schedule payments, a payee must make sure there is an established agency relationship, a payment is properly certified, there is a clear understanding of the nessesary payment type, and how to manage payments in the event they are outside of Treasury or foreign.

Fiscal Service provides multiple services and guidance on the different payment methods federal entities can utilize to schedule and carry out payments. Some examples of payment mechanisms include Stored Value Cards (SVCs), Government Purchase Cards, and Treasury Checks.

Agencies transfer delinquent debts to Cross Servicing for active collection, such as through payment or compromise agreements. The Treasury Offset Program (TOP) withholds funds from federal and state payments to apply to debts individuals and businesses owe to the government.

Payee Setup and Maintenance establishes and maintains federal and nonfederal payee infromation, as well as validates it against other payee information sources. Payee setup and maintenance varies by the payment type.

All federal entities, either using Treasury Disbursing Office (TDO) services, or operating as a Non-Treasury Disbursing Office (NTDO) have payment reporting requirements to support disbursement and financial reconciliation activities.

When a disbursment is not succesful, there are policies, procedures, and reports regarding the resolution of various payment issues. These may include payments which were identified as not received, lost, or stolen, undeliverable, returned, or subject to reclamations.

Interagency agreements must be properly set up to maintain customers, their agreements, and unfilled customer orders.

Proper grants managment requires recording requests for payment, matching grant requests to obligating documents, routing requests for approval by appropriate party (as needed), generating transactions, resolving payment issues, recording credits and payment adjustments, and auditing.

When establishing a new federal entity relationship with Fiscal Service, there needs to be a new obligation management relationship established. Obligations represent orders placed, contracts awarded, services received, and similar transactions during an accounting period that will require payment during the same, or a future, period.

Cash forecasting requirements instruct agencies to report to Treasury, in advance, transactions that will significantly affect Treasury’s General Account (TGA) and Treasury’s Tax and Loan (TT&L) accounts.