PSC Accounting Services provides a full range of financial accounting services that meet strict federal financial management requirements and applicable federal accounting and transaction standards.
We use the Unified Financial Management System (UFMS), an online, real-time application that accepts both manual and electronic entries. UFMS enables customers to perform accounting edits and validations, and supports the HHS Consolidated Acquisition Solution, utilizing general and subsidiary ledgers.
PSC Accounting Services also manages the PSC Debt Collection Center, which provides HHS-wide payroll accounting services for HHS civilian employees and Commissioned Corps Officers, and supports the billing and collection functions for PSC service managers.
Our Services
PSC Accounting Services delivers a broad portfolio of integrated financial services to support the full lifecycle of HHS and customer financial operations. These services are organized across key functional areas, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, financial reporting, systems support, payroll accounting, and debt management, each designed to ensure accuracy, compliance, and efficient service delivery to our customers.
Accounts Payable Branch
The Accounts Payable Branch (APB) acts as a fiscal intermediary between agencies and their recipients, providing centralized electronic payments for HHS. The APB also ensures accurate recording of payments for accounting events, such as commercial payables and government payables.
The branch also monitors commercial, grants, and obligation interfaces to quickly research and resolve errors and ensure data integrity in their respective system modules. The APB consists of distinct operational areas broken down into sections to account for commercial/private payables and federal government payables. The Government Payables Section further consists of Intra-governmental Payments and Collections (IPAC), Obligation and Grants Control and Travel Payments for the PSC and customer agencies.
The PSC Commercial Payables Section processes invoices for all commercial payment vendors; HHS Health Resources and Services Administration programs payroll transactions and related tax reporting and tax filings, scholarships, stipends, awards, and loan repayment programs; G-Schedules, credit card purchases, contracts, utilities, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settlements, benefit claims; also review the Managing Accounting Credit Card System (MACCS©) schedules for the PSC Systems Accounting Branch, and process foreign payments.
Commercial Payables Section Contact
Invoice submission ONLY: psc_invoices@psc.hhs.gov
Invoice status inquiry, rejection notifications, or payment-related questions:pscinvoiceinquiries@psc.hhs.gov
Special Payments, VICP, EEO, FTCA, DICP, G-Schedule: pscspecialInvoices@psc.hhs.gov
The PSC Government Payments Section processes government-related payments for which PSC and its customers acquire various products and services from other federal agencies. More specifically, the IPAC area ensures efficient transfer of funds for payment and collection transfers across federal program agencies.
PSC Grants and Obligation Control ensure grant data (obligations, expenditures, and advances) in the Unified Financial Management System (UFMS) and Payment Management System (PMS) align and successfully post to the accounting system. In addition, the section is responsible for obligating manual purchase orders received from the PSC-serviced Operating Divisions and processing IProcurement unsync documents from PRISM. The Travel area ensures appropriate travel-related transactions are reflected in the accounting system; correct and timely processing of reimbursements; performance of pre and post payment audits; reconciliation and payment on the Centrally Billed Account; and processing/resolving travel-related posting issues in the accounting system.
Government Payables Section Contact
Grants Accounting and Obligation Control: pscgrants-loc@psc.hhs.gov
Obligation Control: pscobligationcontrol@psc.hhs.gov
Travel Section: pscaptravelinquiries@psc.hhs.gov
Accounts Receivable Branch
PSC Accounts Receivable Branch (ARB) is responsible for all intergovernmental accounts receivable and recording of the transactions in UFMS. The branch responsibility is to invoice and collect money that customers owe to the PSC and the PSC-serviced Operating Divisions (OpDivs). Collections are the key functions that enable the PSC to produce revenue, generate cash flow, and maintain operations.
The ARB is responsible for all intergovernmental accounts receivable and recordation of the transactions in UFMS. ARB’s responsibility is to invoice and collect money that customers owe to the PSC and PSC-serviced OpDivs.
Billing and Receivables Section Contact
Email: nonssf.iaabilling@psc.hhs.gov
The ARB manages and maintains PSC's Revenue Invoicing Cost Estimation System (PRICES). PRICES is the primary system used by the PSC and HHS Service and Supply Fund (SSF) to record customer agreement terms; prepare and deliver customer invoices; and report on reimbursable activities.
PRICES Contact: Email:
PRICES@psc.hhs.gov
The Debt Collection Center is part of ARB and has provided debt collection services to PSC customer agencies since it was established in 1995. In May 2002, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) designated the PSC as a debt collection center. This Treasury authority is certified through January 29, 2029.
Debt Collection Section Contact
Email: pscdebtservicing@psc.hhs.gov
Financial and Systems Branch
The Financial and Systems Branch is responsible for managing and safeguarding the integrity of HHS financial operations and systems through comprehensive accounting, disbursement, vendor, payroll, and systems support services. The branch oversees the UFMS and related financial applications, ensuring accurate financial reporting, funds control, vendor, Common Account Number (CAN) maintenance, payroll accounting, and compliance with federal financial regulations. Through coordination with Treasury, HHS OpDivs, and internal stakeholders, the branch supports timely payments, reliable financial data, system functionality, and effective financial management across the department.
The Financial Control Section (FCS) is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the UFMS general ledger module which serves as a basis for a portion of the HHS financial statements. The FCS also serves as the liaison with Treasury for commercial payments as well as the document control point for incoming checks.
CAN Maintenance
The CAN Maintenance Team supports financial operations by assisting with the establishment and maintenance of CANs in UFMS for assigned OpDivs. Working in coordination with budget programs and accounting staff, the team helps ensure CANs are accurately created, updated, and rolled forward annually in accordance with financial controls, standardized fiscal coding requirements, and established training and procedures.
CAN Maintenance Contact
Email: psc-can-requests@psc.hhs.gov
Disbursing Services
The Disbursing Services is responsible for processing incoming documentation to the PSC Accounting Services. It also serves as a Payment Liaison with Treasury for commercial payment transactions, including verifying final payments and processing refunds and check returns.
Disbursing Services Contact
Email: disbursement_services_immediate_payments@psc.hhs.gov
Vendor Maintenance
The Vendor Maintenance Team is responsible for establishing, updating, and maintaining vendor records in UFMS, HHS’s Oracle-based financial system. The team ensures that employees, non-employees, customers, and other accounts payable recipients are accurately set up to support timely and compliant disbursement of payments. On a regular basis, the team processes vendor adds and update requests in accordance with established standard operating procedures to maintain data integrity and support HHS financial operations.
Vendor Maintenance Contact
Email: psc-vendor-requests@psc.hhs.gov
General Ledger/Reconciliations
FMP Accounting Services is responsible for general ledger oversight for the PSC set of books in the UFMS. This support covers the various budgetary resource transactions, including warrants, interdepartmental delegations of authority (IDDA), non-expenditure transfers (SF-1151), allotments, and allowances. The section is also responsible for assisting in the monitoring of funds control issues, as well as establishing UFMS tables, including appropriations, funds, vendor/supplier files, and CAN-Budget Accounting Classification Structure (BACS).
General Ledger/Reconciliations Contact
Email: pscglinquiry@psc.hhs.gov
Systems Accounting Section
The Systems Accounting Section (SAS) maintains central automated accounting and finance systems that support operations for the PSC, a number of HHS agencies, and hundreds of locations located throughout the country.
The UFMS is HHS's integrated department-wide financial management system which supports all of PSC's Accounting Services and reporting. The UFMS Site Support Section supports the PSC UFMS set of books for PSC and customer agencies. This support largely consists of functional and technical support of change management and related activities such as research and analysis, troubleshooting, testing of system code, testing system upgrades and enhancements SAS also executes month-end and year-end closing of UFMS working closely with other branches and module experts in the PSC Accounting Services.
The UFMS Site Support Section supports MACCS. MACCS allows federal authorized purchase card holders to manage and track all credit card purchases; create accounting obligation transactions at the time of cardholder entry or authorization; import credit card transactions received electronically from the credit card processing center; and reconcile those transactions with the cardholder's transactions. MACCS handles disputes of credit card transactions, credit tracking and processing, and establishes disbursement accounting transactions from reconciled records authorized for payment and can then forward them into UFMS for processing.
The UFMS Site Support Section supports the Financial Business Intelligence System (FBIS), which provides access to reports derived from UFMS. FBIS is a system integrated with UFMS that allows reports to be generated based on the UFMS databases to assist executives and operations staff with data analysis.
Systems Accounting Section Contact
Email: pscaboperationssupport@psc.hhs.gov
Payroll Accounting Section
The Payroll Accounting Section maintains the Accounting for Pay System (AFPS) interface, which provides a complete payroll accounting solution. AFPS gives customers online capability to manage payroll costs at the CAN level and the ability to change the distribution of costs as necessary.
Services offered include:
- Payroll reconciliation
- Systematic interface for payroll accounting information needed to account for disbursements, obligations, and accruals for personnel costs
- Collection and disbursement of payroll items such as income taxes and unemployment benefits
- Reporting of payroll items to Treasury, states, Internal Revenue Service, and U.S. Department of Labor
- Preparation of SF-224, the monthly Statement of Transaction, and a variety of payroll and annual HHS pension reports
Payroll Accounting Section Contact
Email: pscafpsupport@psc.hhs.gov