National Payment Center of Excellence (NPCE)
(Formerly Kansas City Financial Center)
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service has centers in Kansas City and in Philadelphia. The Kansas City Financial Center, now the National Payment Center of Excellence (NPCE), pays out money, helps collect money, handles foreign transactions, and supports Fiscal Service programs.
Payment Services
The National Payment Center of Excellence provides payment services for more than 300 federal agencies. Your federal income tax refunds; Social Security benefits; Supplemental Security income; Railroad Retirement Board benefits; veteran's pay, pension, and education benefits all come from the National Payment Center of Excellence. Payments to federal workers, vendors, and grantees also come from Kansas City.
In fiscal year 2021, the National Payment Center of Excellence issued more than 1.7 billion payments, 92% percent by electronic funds transfer and the rest by check.
Collecting money
The National Payment Center of Excellence also helps the Treasury Offset Program (TOP) collect delinquent debts that taxpayers owe to the federal government or to a state government.
The National Payment Center of Excellence matches the eligible payments against the TOP database for offset.
Handling foreign transactions
At the National Payment Center of Excellence, we also process all payments in foreign currency for federal agencies. In fiscal year 2021, we processed more than $17 billion in foreign currency payments through the International Treasury Services system (ITS.gov).
Supporting Fiscal Service programs
In addition to paying out and collecting money, we support the Bureau of the Fiscal Service and its customers by providing
- customer support for the Automated Standard Application for Payments System (ASAP)
- project management for the Payment Application Manager (PAM) effort to modernize and consolidate more than 30 payment applications into one streamlined system
- training and education on financial management and accounting programs
We also
- develop and test financial management products and services
- serve as financial advisors to federal, state, and local governments; the financial community; and the Federal Reserve System to make sure that they are using programs from the Bureau of the Fiscal Service effectively and efficiently
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Contact the National Payment Center of Excellence in Kansas City
For questions about federal payments
1-855-868-0151payments@fiscal.treasury.gov
National Payment Center of Excellence
P.O. Box 12599-0599
Kansas City, MO 64116-0599
Federal employees: For help with PAM, PIR, or SPS
1-816-414-2340