If you have a question about the Financial Organization Master File (FOMF) or about a specific aspect of the file format for the Standard Payment Request (SPR), you may find it on the Formats for Payments Requests page.
Send an e-mail to PAM.SAT@fiscal.treasury.gov.
In the e-mail, define your test scope and requirements. Also tell us the dates you want for testing.
Yes. We encourage your software providers to attend our training sessions and webinars with people from your agency.
For the training schedule, see Fiscal Service’s main Training page. That page is organized alphabetically by Fiscal Service program. You may have to scroll to find sessions or webinars about PAM.
Each session description includes a list of recommended participants.
Yes, you must use the PAM SPR 5.0.2 file format.
You may request the format at FS.AgencyOutreach@fiscal.treasury.gov
Yes, the SPR file can include one or multiple schedules, but each schedule can contain only one type of payment and only one method of payment.
Examples of types of payment: Benefit, Miscellaneous, Travel, Vendor
Examples of methods of payment: ACH, check
Type A payments are requests that you make through the Secure Payment System (SPS).
Type B payments are requests that you make using a bulk file that you submit through Connect: Direct or the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).
For Type A payments, you type the payment detail information into the SPS system or you import the information into SPS using the 440 format. You also give the summary information for certification through SPS.
For Type B payments, you include the payment detail information with the bulk file. However, you still put the summary information for certification through SPS.
Prearranged Payment and Deposit (PPD) – ACH payment going to an individual's bank account.
Cash Concentration or Disbursement (CCD) – ACH payment going to a company's bank account.
Corporate Trade Exchange (CTX) - ACH payments with multiple invoices to a single vendor. Agency is allowed 999 (04) ACH addendum records with 800 bytes of data.
International ACH Transaction (IAT) – ACH payment that is going to a payee with a domestic bank account and involved a financial institution office outside of the U.S.
An IAT payment is a type of ACH payment where you are paying in U.S. dollars with a U.S. bank's routing number but to a foreign payee address. (Remember that Puerto Rico and Guam are U.S. territories; they are not considered foreign.)
You must put an IAT payment on a separate schedule in your PAM SPR.
Use the Standard Entry Class Code: IAT
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) screens IAT payments.
An IAT payment is an ACH payment in U.S. dollars to a U.S. bank where the payee's address is foreign.
ITS.gov is for payments in a foreign currency, using an International Banking Account Number (IBAN) and a Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) code – not to a U.S. bank with a U.S. bank routing number.
You use either Connect: Direct or the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).
Yes, PAM does validate the TAS/BETCs.
If the TAS/BETC (G Record) is not received or is not valid in SAM, PAM will reject the file.