U. S. Coast Guard Pay & Personnel Center
2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Direct Access Maintenance Scheduled
Direct Access (DA) will not be available from 9:00 PM (Central Time) on Thursday, March 4, 2021 until 1:00 AM (Central Time), Friday, March 5, 2021. The system will be offline for routine server maintenance.
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Commanding Officer (Staff Symbol) U.S. Coast Guard Pay & Personnel Center 444 S. E. Quincy St. Topeka, KS 66683-3591
(866) 772-8724 (785) 339-2200
PPC-DG-CustomerCare@uscg.mil
MilConnect
New Direct Access & WebNow Links
Per ALCOAST 069/21, here are the new web addresses (URLs) for Direct Access and WebNow/Perceptive Content:
New Direct Access link: https://hcm.direct-access.uscg.mil New ImageNow/Perceptive Content link: https://imgprd01.direct-access.uscg.mil/webnow (Note: CG network access required.)
The user names and passwords you use to access these systems have not changed.
Combat Tax Exclusion, Auto-stop upon PCS: The system isn't shutting down Combat Tax Exclusion (CTE) upon PCS departure. CTE entitlement ends on the day of PCS departure from a combat zone. SPOs must manually stop CTE when processing PCS transfers for members from combat zones until this programming discrepancy is corrected.
Combat Tax Exclusion Retroactive Transactions: When a SPO enters a Combat Tax Exclusion transaction for retroactive start and/or stop dates in an already finalized pay calendar, the SPO MUST follow up with a PPC Customer Care Ticket requesting manual adjustment to the members tax balances.
Example - SPO enters a Combat Tax Exclusion transaction with a begin date of 1AUG2016, but the SPO didn't approve the transaction until 17AUG2016. The mid-AUG pay calendar (1st - 15th) has already been finalized, so the SPO must submit a PPC Customer Care Ticket so that PPC can manually adjust the members tax balances.
Refer to the Combat Tax Exclusion SPO User Guide for the procedure to stop CTE.