U. S. Coast Guard Pay & Personnel Center
2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Direct Access System Maintenance Planned
Direct Access (DA) will be taken offline for maintenance on Thursday, 27 August 2020, at 2200 (Eastern Time). They system will not be available for use until Friday, 28 August 2020, at 0200 (Eastern Time).
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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
Direct-Access Web-TPAX https://webtpax.osc.uscg.mil/ (copy and paste into address bar, must be on a CG Workstation. Web-Tpax cannot be accessed via the internet)
MilConnect
Effective Monday, 11 May 2020, PPC's Call Center will resume taking live phone calls. The phone number for PPC Customer Care is 1-866-772-8724 and the hours of operation are 0700 - 1600 Central Time.
All customers are encouraged to submit trouble tickets through electronic means, if possible. You can submit a trouble ticket by emailing PPC-DG-CustomerCare@uscg.mil. For those with CG Portal access, you can submit the online trouble ticket form found at https://cg.portal.uscg.mil/units/ppc/SitePages/Contact Us.aspx. Thank you!
By LT Chase Mercer, CG-1B1, Future Force Project Division, USCG Headquarters (CG-1B1)
T​he Direct Access Competency Dictionary (file in MS Excel format) (a spreadsheet which shows all authorized competency codes and descriptions) has been updated by Commandant (CG-1B-1).
Changes made since last update (07 July 2020 2020) are hi-lighted in blue text on the spreadsheet.
· 10 Competencies Created
· 02 Competencies Modified
o APA
o MPA
· 1 Competencies Inactivated