Benefits Payment
Investment ID: 029-666666401
Overview
Program Title
Benefits Payment
Description
Benefits Payment includes the Finance and Accounting System (FAS) and enterprise Management of Payments Workload and Reporting (eMPWR-VA) which provides payment processing and accounting for Disability Compensation, Pension and Education benefits.
Type of Program
Major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Associated Websites
https://www.va.gov/oei/docs/va-strategic-plan-2022-2028.pdf
Investment Detail
The Benefits Payment investment will continue to acquire the services needed to develop, test and deliver these enhancement goals of the investment:
*This effort will accomplish modernization and retirement of legacy systems, and will focus on new initiatives. This will include retirement of the Financial and Accounting System (FAS) VB6GUI, Treasury systems modernization to support changes at the Treasury Department, also Centralized Accounts Receivable System (CARS) modernization in support of the Debt Management Center, as well as, integrations related to Financial Management Business Transformation (FMBT) and Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System (iFAMS).
*This will also support VBA payments modernization (consolidate fiduciary and education payments and transactions, platform updates and produce appropriate interfaces to the VA enterprise financial system).
This investment will provide better service to the Veteran in the areas of improved debt management and expanded education benefits. It will allow the system to migrate to the enterprise Identity Access Management (IAM) service which will improve and standardize system security.
The sustainment budget request will allow the program to acquire the services needed to provide application support for operations and maintenance of the disability compensation, pension and education applications and to maintain the required software licensing for the technologies in place.
*This effort will accomplish modernization and retirement of legacy systems, and will focus on new initiatives. This will include retirement of the Financial and Accounting System (FAS) VB6GUI, Treasury systems modernization to support changes at the Treasury Department, also Centralized Accounts Receivable System (CARS) modernization in support of the Debt Management Center, as well as, integrations related to Financial Management Business Transformation (FMBT) and Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System (iFAMS).
*This will also support VBA payments modernization (consolidate fiduciary and education payments and transactions, platform updates and produce appropriate interfaces to the VA enterprise financial system).
This investment will provide better service to the Veteran in the areas of improved debt management and expanded education benefits. It will allow the system to migrate to the enterprise Identity Access Management (IAM) service which will improve and standardize system security.
The sustainment budget request will allow the program to acquire the services needed to provide application support for operations and maintenance of the disability compensation, pension and education applications and to maintain the required software licensing for the technologies in place.