1. Bureau of the Fiscal Service
Treasury’s Move Towards Paperless Processes
September 13, 2018

2. Agenda Bureau of the Fiscal Service Payment Management
Non-Receipt Process
Reclamation Process
Treasury Check Verification Application
Contact Information
Questions

3. Who is the Fiscal Service?
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service (The Bureau), a new bureau of the Treasury Department, was formed from the consolidation of the Financial Management Service (legacy FMS) and the Bureau of the Public Debt (legacy BPD) The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is committed to delivering strong leadership, exceptional operational services, and positive transformational change of government-wide financial management and shared services.
The mission is to promote the financial integrity and operational efficiency of the U.S. government through exceptional accounting, financing, collections, payments and shared services.

4. Payment Management
• Fiscal Service disburses almost 90% of the federal government’s payments.
• Our recipients are a global community, living domestically and abroad, in rural and urban areas.
On behalf of over 200 Federal agencies, Treasury made 1.18 billion payments valued at over $3.3 trillion in Fiscal Year 2017.

5. Payment Management Kansas City Financial Center
Responsible for issuing domestic and foreign payments on behalf of federal agencies.
Philadelphia Financial Center
Responsible for managing all reconciliation and post payment activities associated with payment issuance

6. ACH Non-Receipt Changes
Overview
Payee claims non-receipt of SSA, SSI, VA or IRS (removal of the form) payment
Fiscal Service calls, s or faxes FI’s information to obtain disposition
FI responds by either phone or fax
Recent Challenges with the current process
FI’s are vetting these phone calls
We are having problems with obtaining the disposition

7. ACH Non-Receipt Changes
E-Initiative – (nationwide)
Contacting FI’s and creating a database to securely communicate via
Treasury Employees (regional initiative)
Started providing employee names to RPA’s
IRS (R17) Partnership
Obtain Account Owner Information for R17 returns.
(NEW!) R06/Account Owner Combo Letter

8. IRS – R17 (Partnership)

9. R06/Account Owner Combo Letter

10. ACH Reclamation (Deceased Payee) Changes
FedMail Delivery Notifications
Electronic Reclamation Notifications
Delivery via FedMail
ACH Debit Authorization Pilot
This process is currently being piloted with high volume Reclamation Financial Institution's.
FI authorizes amount to be debited on BFS 133 in lieu of paper check being mailed to Treasury
Quicker and more timely turnaround
Debit posts to FI’s Fed Account same day
Satisfy ACH Reclamations with Automated Debit Payments

11. ACH Debit Authorization

12. https://tcva.fms.treas.gov/
Treasury Check Verification Application (TCVA)

13. TCVA

14. Contact Information
ACH Non-Receipts
Kevin MacKenzie
Supervisory Non-Receipt Specialist
Diane Marshall
Reclamation / Check Claims
Leonard Watley
Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist

15. Questions?