U. S. Coast Guard Pay & Personnel Center
Direct Access Outage Thursday, 19 Dec 0001 Hrs. to Tuesday, 31 Dec 2359 Hrs. (Eastern Time)
Direct Access (DA) will not be available for units, SPOs, members or retirees & annuitants from 0001 (EST) on Thursday, 19 December 2019 to 2359 on Tuesday, 31 December 2019 (EST). This outage is necessary to support 2020 pay rate and other regulatory changes. The self-service password reset feature will also be disabled during this outage.
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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
The April 2019 edition of the PPC Travel eNewsletter is now available. This issue includes the following items of interest:
We Pay What We Can BLUF: We will pay everything that we legally can and make sure it will pass audit
Decedent Affairs Officer (DAO) Communications with Pay and Personnel Center (PPC) Travel (TVL) Branch Chief BLUF: Call me! I will drop everything to assist you and the Casualty Assistance Calls Officer (CACO)
CG7421-A Form and Requirements BLUF: Memo is no longer required, just proof of Approving Official (AO) course completion
Tips for Travel Claim Processing BLUF: Some frequent errors resulting in kickbacks
Official Distance BLUF: Use T-Pax, don’t bother with Defense Table of Official Distance (DTOD)
Supplemental BLUF: Tell us why, help us help you
Travel Order Number (TONO) to TONO Per Diem and Lodging BLUF: How to input to ensure you get all your money
Rental Vehicle Reimbursement Information BLUF: (AO)’s need to educate travelers and not approve unauthorized charges
Rental Vehicles and Government Administrative Rate Supplemental (GARS) BLUF: Rental Vehicles is the big one; don’t set your people up for Falor, we mean failure
Privately Owned Vehicles (POV) More Advantageous BLUF: Be sure your traveler qualifies
Various Units on Orders BLUF: T-Pax (AO) must be from the same unit as orders (AO)
Travel Lodging Expense (TLE) BLUF: Clarification on policy. Joint Travel Regulations (JTR) takes precedence
Education and Training Quota Management Command (ETQC) Orders and AO’s Signing Unauthorized Amendments BLUF: ALCOAST 343/18 tells you what you can and what you need approval for
Authorizing Official Requirements BLUF: Memo? What memo? And a test out option
Manual Claim Submissions BLUF: Guidelines that will help everyone
Permanent Change of Station (PCS) Advances/PCS Signature Proxy BLUF: More tools, less “It’s not my job”
Post Audit Process BLUF: If we e-mail you, we need something
Shout Out! BLUF: Amazing work by YN2 Amato from Base Boston
April 2019 edition of the PPC Travel eNewsletter
