Career Sea Pay Action Requests
There are three Action Requests used for Career Sea Pay in Direct Access: CAREER SEA TIME OVERRIDE CAREER SEA PAY ON TDY PAY CORRECTIONS The Career Sea Time Override Action Request is particularly...
View ArticleOfficer Uniform Allowance Manual and Automatic Payments
The system will pay the $400 Officer Uniform Allowance to USCG officers and USCGR officers on long term active duty promoted from enlisted to officer via the Board (and APOM) process. The system will...
View ArticleACIP Procedures When Entitlement is Month-to-Month
An officer entitled to monthly Aviation Career Incentive Pay (ACIP) must perform a minimum of 4 hours of aerial flights each month to qualify for monthly ACIP. If the officer does not perform a minimum...
View ArticleReserve AD Orders Overlapping PCS Orders
Prior to setting reserve active duty orders (any type) to a finished status, you must ensure that a PCS transfer was not executed at any time from when the member initiated the reserve active duty...
View ArticleTRICARE Young Adult premiums to increase Jan. 1, 2016
Premiums for the Military Health System's benefit plan for adult children between 23 and 26 years old have been announced. The premiums for TRICARE Young Adult (TYA) program will increase on Jan. 1,...
View ArticleClothing Maintenance Allowance (CMA) Not Auto-Starting
We recently discovered that CMA has not started on approximately 2500 members (list of names was provided to SPOs on 27 October 2015 via e-mail). It appears that the CMA row is not being created when a...
View ArticleYour taxes and the Affordable Care Act
During January 2016, PPC will begin providing IRS Forms 1095 (C and/or B depending on your status as a military member, military retiree, or annuitant). The information will be necessary when you...
View ArticleBasic "Yeomanship" - Payslip Validation
It has been almost a year since the Coast Guard implemented payroll processing in Direct Access. It has not been a painless transition, but overall it has been a successful implementation. However,...
View ArticleProcessing Military Permanent Change of Station Travel Claims in WEB-TPAX
ALCOAST message 416/15 announces new capability that enables Permanent Change of Station (PCS) travel claims to be entered and submitted directly through WEB-TPAX.
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PPC Customer Newsletter October 2015
Issue 10/15 (October) of the PPC Customer Newsletter is now available. In this issue: October End-Month Payroll Processing Complete Submit Requests to PPC for Specialized Virtual Training Processing...
View ArticleCGHR: On the Radar Screen November 03, 2015
CGHR: On the Radar Screen, is the monthly newsletter of CG-1, the Coast Guard Human Resources Directorate. I would try to summarize its content for you, but I am sure I would miss something. Read it!...
View ArticleTraining Opportunity: SGLI Program Overview
An Overview of the SGLI Program is being offered to all branches of service on Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 1400 (2 p.m.) Eastern. The training will be done by phone, so no travel is involved. Who...
View ArticleDirect Access Team Recognized by International Association for Human Resource...
The International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM) Project of the Year Award honors project teams for their successful completion of an HR information management project....
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New Video Added - Understanding Job Data
We've added a video for viewing Job Data in Direct Access (DA). Job Data is like the backbone of DA. It has always been an important part of the HR side, but now that pay is also attached to it, it's...
View Article2015 Wage and Tax Stamens (IRS W-2 Forms)
IRS Form W-2 for 2015 will be mailed no later than 31 January 2016. W-2s are mailed to the member's mailing address in Direct Access. In addition to W-2 forms, PPC will also be mailing IRS 1095-B,...
View ArticleImpacts to Class "C" School Orders During Direct Access Outage
Per ALCOAST 433/15, Direct Access will be offline from 19 December 2015 through 3 January 2016. As a result, there will be no user access to Direct Access. Besides pay and personnel transactions (PCS,...
View ArticleImpacts to Class "A" School Orders During Direct Access Outage
Per ALCOAST 433/15, Direct Access will be offline from 19 December 2015 to 03 January 2016. As a result, the U.S. Coast Guard Personnel Service Center's, Enlisted Personnel Assignments Branch...
View ArticleCoast Guard Personnel Service Center Reserve Personnel Management Division...
CG PSC-RPM is moving to Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC during the month of December. ALCGRSV message 087/15 provides a timeline for the move and information on contacting CG PSC-RPM during...
View ArticleE-Resume Submission Deadline for Reserve CAPT, CDR, and CWO Changed
Due to the upcoming Direct Access outage, the deadline for submission of E-Resumes, will be extended to 08 January 2016 for Selected Reserve (SELRES) CAPT, CDR, and CWO assignments. See ALCGRSV message...
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Change to Payroll Processing Schedule - Deadline for 2015 Payroll Actions...
Per ALCOAST 433/15, Direct Access will be offline from 19 December 2015 through 3 January 2016. In order to assure complete and successful processing of the December payroll prior to the shutdown there...
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