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.

Current guidance on paper deposit transactions include the requirements for using depositaries to hold public money, the Lockbock Network (LBN), and instructions on how to deposit both domestic and foreign checks and cash.

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.

Fiscal Service provides nontax, administrative debt collection services through the Centralized Receivables Service (CRS) to federal agencies.

The general public, government entities, businesses, and institutions can pay and collect money electronically without paper checks or cash. Mechanisms that can be used include ACH credit, ACH debit, Fedwire settlements, credit and debit cards, and Digital Wallets remotely.

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.

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.

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

Guidance for travel management varies depending on the payment processing. For example, travel temporary duty, local payments, and travel PCS payments all have different guidance.

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.