U. S. Coast Guard Pay & Personnel Center
Travel (TVL) Branch
Direct-Access Planned Maintenance Outage
Direct Access will not be available from Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 9:00 PM (CDT) until Friday, July 1, 2022, at 1:00 AM (CDT). This outage is necessary for system and server maintenance.
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(866) 772-8724 (785) 339-2000 For E-Gov Travel Sys (ETS) Call the hotline: 1-866-800-USCG (8724)
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2022 Hurricane Season - Ensuring Personnel Readiness (ALCOAST 141/22)
Coast Guard families, here’s how to prepare for hurricane season
Evacuation Message Template (MS Word Format)
TRICARE Access during an Evacuation or Natural Disaster
Natural Disaster Allowances Guide and Evacuation Allowances FAQs (CG-133)
Active Duty Evacuation Allowances Guide (3-14-2022)
Emergency Guide for Civilians
Preparing ETS Profiles Prior to Hurricane and Wildfire Season (ALCOAST 199/22)
Adding Dependents to Your ETS Profile
Creating ETS Travel Authorizations (See Section 14 for Creating Dependent Travel)
Guide to Becoming an ETS Cell (Evacuation Super User)
Government Travel Charge Card (GTCC) Program: Financial and Travel System Transition Guidance - Update (ALCGPSC 081/22)
Web-TPAX Sign in page (CG Network Users Only)
Travel Authorizing /Approving Official (AO) Course Offline
The AO Course contains Adobe FLASH Media and has been temporarily removed as Adobe FLASH Media is no longer supported and deemed a cyber-vulnerability by CG-6. Please submit your CG-7421a without any attachments and permissions will be granted. As soon as the course comes back online, we will update our website and require proof of completion of the AO course for new AO's or proof the tests have been completed for renewing AO permissions.
Read these guides to learn how to log into Web TPAX for the first time, understand its features, and maintain your account.
Click the revision date (DD Mmm YYYY) to open the guide or tutorial.
First Time Web TPAX User
Traveler - Audits
Travel AO Webinar Conducted on 11 April 2017
Military Human Resource Business Process Standardization (MHR-BPS) Permanent Change of Station Process Models (CG Portal Links)
The Military Human Resource Business Process Standardization (MHR-BPS) site houses a set of high level (context) and related lower level (process) models, designed for the United States Coast Guard (USCG) Yeoman (YN), or designated staff, performing Unit Level Administration and/or Servicing Personnel Office (SPO) functions to reference when completing USCG human resource tasking.
Context Model:
Process Models:
This is a running list of known issues and procedural highlights.
Also, be sure to visit our branch news page for travel-related news updates.
June 2022
2022 PCS Season Resource Updates
Temporary Lodging Allowance (TLA) Advances and Claims CG Portal Site
Processing Advances for Personally Procured Moves (PPM)
Standard Mileage Rates for Official Travel (Flag Voice 579)
May 2022
Action Required: Preparing ETS Profiles Prior to Hurricane and Wildfire Season: ALCOAST 199/22 requires all personnel (active duty, reservists, and civilians) to ensure their ETS accounts are active, and their profiles are up to date with all dependent information added, by 01 June. This is critical to enabling processing of dependent claims in ETS and reimbursement payments via FSMS.
(*) YN2 Steinbach, Airstation San Francisco, created and provided these guides.
April, 2022
March, 2022
February, 2022
The Travel Assist Team (TAT) is available through March 31. Only approving officials or fund approvers should contact TAT.
DHS FSM Periodically sends FSMS System Status announcements to inform users of both planned and unplanned system outages. To ensure wide distribution of this information we post these announcements to a System Status Announcement Board and forward them to the HQ-FMPS-System-Status Distribution Group. To subscribe to receive FSMS System Status Announcements (Click Here ); To view FSMS System Status Announcements (Click Here).
December, 2021: