We designed the Debt Management System (DMS) remittance process to issue a receipt
for remittances received in the FO. The latest DMS release generates two end-of-day
Field Office Remittance Transmittals:
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checks and money order remittances (FORT), and
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remittances paid by debit/credit card (CCFORT).
The FORT lists remittances received for the following reasons:
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benefit overpayment refunds,
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claimant representative fee refunds,
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gifts to the Social Security Trust Funds,
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retroactive Medicare premiums paid on an installment basis,
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court ordered restitution payments,
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checks resulting from OIG investigative activity, and
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other miscellaneous items directed to MATPSC.
The CCFORT lists transactions made by debit/credit card.
DMS also generates a Field Office Daily Receipt Listing (FODRL) for auditing and reconciling
other program money (unendorsed returned benefit checks) and non-program money (standard
fees). DMS generates the receipt and an instruction sheet for certain money items,
and provides the mailing address of where to send the items.
The FORT and CCFORT serve as transmittals that accompany remittances sent to the MATPSC,
rather than to the related PSC of jurisdiction for the account number.
Remittances include Title II and Title XVI overpayment refunds, money gifts to the
Social Security Trust Funds, or conserved funds, including savings bonds, and Medicare
premiums and overpayments. For the list of acceptable remittances, see GN 02403.005A.
The FO will give the person submitting any of these items a receipt.
NOTE: Unendorsed returned benefit checks are NOT remittances (even though we provide the person presenting an unendorsed returned benefit
check a receipt). FO personnel return these checks to the Treasury Regional Disbursing
Office whose address appears on the Treasury check. For more information on Unendorsed
Returned Benefit checks, see GN 02405.010 and GN 02405.100
FOs will maintain the manual receipt process (using the Form SSA-1395-BK (Receipt
and Transmittal Form)) for situations where DMS malfunctions or for out-of-office
receipting when the DMS process is unavailable.