C ONTENT S

FALL 2021

 2 Would a “Stop Payment” Function in 

the DNP Portal Improve Your Eligibility 

Processes? Let’s Talk About It!

3 Goodbye DUNS Number...Hello Unique 

Entity Identifier!

4 How DNP Can Assist Your Agency with 

Year-End Reporting

5 Expanded Capabilities Help State 

Partners Find Improper Payments

6 Engaging with DNP Will Help Mitigate 

Pandemic Relief Disbursement Risks

7 DNP Can Provide Solutions to Business 

Problems Spanning Across Agencies

7 DNP Delivers Quicker Eligibility Results 

to Empower Customers

8 Survey
The Do Not Pay (DNP) Portal 

provides agencies a central hub 

to match payees against a variety of 

data sources to determine payment 

eligibility. Ultimately, the agency 

is responsible for performing 

research in the Portal, as well 

as for determining next steps 

about whether or not to pay an 

individual/entity (according to 

their own internal controls). But 

what if, in an automated process, 

payments to matched payees in the 

Portal could be prevented from 

being disbursed to individuals/

entities that are deemed ineligible 

to receive those payments?

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service 

(Fiscal Service) is currently 

exploring options and gathering 

agency feedback to support a 

Stop Payment functionality in the 

Would a “Stop Payment” Function in the DNP Portal Improve Your Eligibility 

Processes? Let’s Talk About It!

DNP Portal. This functionality 

would allow agencies to authorize 

stopping a payment intended 

for a recipient that is ultimately 

deemed ineligible to receive that 

payment, based on match results 

found in the DNP Portal. Stopping 

a payment to an ineligible recipient 

would help prevent payments from 

being improperly disbursed, saving 

agency resources from having 

to conduct costly pay-and-chase 

activities to recover improperly 

disbursed payments.

The Stop Payment functionality 

may need to rely on an agency’s 

documented business rules to 

determine which payments would 

be eligible to be stopped. DNP may 

require an agency to document these 

rules and to authorize DNP to stop 

the payment from being disbursed.

DNP needs your help to develop 

the Stop Payment functionality 

into a tool that provides value 

and meets agency needs. We 

want to hear your thoughts, ideas, 

recommendations, and concerns 

for building and offering the 

Stop Payment functionality 

as a standard tool for 

agency use. To begin 

the conversation 

and share your 

expertise, please 

contact your 

Agency Lead 

and Agency 

Specialist (find your 

agency’s contacts in the 

Contact List at the end 

of this newsletter) or email 

donotpay@fiscal.treasury.gov.

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The Data Universal Numbering System, or DUNS number, has historically 

been used by the federal government to identify and validate federal 

contractors. However, beginning on April 4, 2022, the DUNS number will 

be replaced by the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) through System for Award 

Management (SAM) which will be viewable on SAM.gov. How will this 

transition impact agencies that use the Do Not Pay (DNP) Portal?

UEI’s replacement of the DUNS number will help streamline the process 

that businesses and vendors must undertake to register for working with 

the federal government. Vendors and entities will be able to go to SAM.

gov to request their UEI and register their business, make updates to their 

business name and physical address, as well as access customer support 

resources for UEI and registration issues.

DNP is updating its own processes and functionalities to accommodate the 

changes required by the transition to UEI. These updates include:

• Integrating UEI into the match results screens for SAM Registration 

Records and SAM Exclusion Records matches in Online Search 

Goodbye DUNS Number...Hello Unique Entity Identifier!

OCTOBER 2, 2021

WINTER 2021/SPRING 2022 APRIL 4, 2022

SPRING 2022

SAM Exclusions Records to Accommodate UEI

Portal Online Search Updates to Display and 

Accommodate SAM Exclusions UEI

SAM Entity Registration Records Data Source to Accommodate UEI

Portal Online Search Updates to 

Display and Accommodate SAM Entity Registration Records UEI

Full Transition to UEI

Batch Matching and Continuous Monitoring Changes to Accommodate UEI

Portal UI Updates

Customer Bulk File Format Updates

• Providing the ability to match based on a business’s UEI

• DUNS +4 is being replaced by the Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) 

Indicator

Agencies that use the DNP Portal should be aware of these changes and the 

impacts to their workflows. Agencies that maintain a Batch Matching or 

Continuous Monitoring file with DNP will be required to make updates to 

their input file format to reflect the use of the UEI rather than the DUNS 

number. DNP has updated the input file layout for Batch Matching and 

Continuous Monitoring files. Please contact DNP if you need the new 

layout and if your agency is ready to send test files to verify the new format.

For additional information and background about how the UEI transition 

impacts DNP Portal activities and how agencies can best prepare for the 

transition, find a presentation from our recent Best Practices Forum about 

the UEI change here, or a Quick Reference Card here. Or, you can find 

more information on the GSA website.

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As fiscal year (FY) 2021 financial reporting is underway and the 

 new fiscal year begins, we want to remind our users how you can 

leverage Do Not Pay (DNP) to assist with your program’s reporting 

needs. Users can log into the DNP Portal to create and download 

the Payment Activity Report (PAR). This document matches the 

Payment Automation Manager (PAM) data against the death data 

sources available in the Portal and summarizes the matches by Agency 

Location Code.

The PAR can assist with your agency’s financial reporting by providing 

information on:

• the total number of payments and dollar amount matched to DNP 

death data sources at the time of payment disbursement

• the number of payments adjudicated in the Portal

• the number of payments stopped (if applicable) 

• the number of matches to each death data source available in 

the Portal 

Information is available at the aggregate level, and broken out by 

Agency Location Code, which can allow your agency to report on 

individual programs, if needed. The PAR can help your agency report 

on which programs are enrolled in the DNP Portal, which programs 

are adjudicating payment matches in the DNP Portal, and which 

programs have identified improper payments using the DNP Portal. 

How DNP Can Assist Your Agency with Year-End Reporting

Agencies can also request custom data extracts from inputs to the Outcome 

section in the Portal, which is available in the Online Search, Batch Matching, 

and Continuous Monitoring functionalities. This information can be helpful 

with year-end reporting, as it contains data from the pre-award and pre-payment 

stages of the payment lifecycle on whether a match prevented an improper 

payment, the dollar amount of the improper payment avoided, the payment 

frequency, and the payment category. However, completion of the Outcome 

section is optional for Portal Users, and data extracts are only available if users 

populate and submit the 

Outcome information to DNP. 

It may be beneficial for your 

agency to require completion 

of the Outcome section, to 

obtain data to assist with 

financial reporting for FY2022. 

You can contact your agency’s 

appointed Agency Lead 

or Agency Specialist (see 

the Agency Contact List at 

the end of this newsletter) 

with questions on the PAR, 

Outcome section in the DNP 

Portal, or custom data extracts 

using information submitted 

via the Outcome section by 

your agency’s users.

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The Do Not Pay (DNP) Business Center has recently expanded our suite 

of services for state agencies to help meet their eligibility verification 

needs. The Eligibility Verification & Risk Solution uncovers risks 

associated with eligibility requirements by applying robust matching 

methods and performing data quality and integrity analyses. The resulting 

insights allow you to assess existing payment processes and can help 

to pinpoint areas of opportunity where controls could be strengthened. 

Additionally, it returns records that are at risk of improper payments 

which warrant further research. This solution is ideal for state oversight 

agencies or state agencies that administer or review funds for Medicaid, 

Unemployment Insurance, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs, 

Child Health Insurance Programs, or Temporary Assistance for Needy 

Families beneficiaries. It can also benefit federal agencies that administer or 

oversee payments issued to beneficiaries as well. 

DNP has a proven track record of providing actionable insights to state 

partners. Through partnerships with several state offices, DNP has leveraged 

its capabilities to identify more than $6.1M potential improper payments 

issued by federally funded, state-administered programs. 

DNP has a variety of capabilities that help state partners meet payment 

integrity related needs: 

• Determining Eligible Recipients – DNP leverages a variety of 

eligibility data sources to ensure program participants and/or 

providers meet eligibility requirements. 

• Verifying Data Quality – Poor data quality can negatively impact 

a program’s ability to effectively screen recipients, which could 

compromise payment integrity. DNP runs a series of tests to 

evaluate which records are at risk of poor quality. 

Expanded Capabilities Help State Partners Find Improper Payments

• Identifying Risky Records – DNP uses techniques to identify anomalies, 

such as potential duplicate payments and possible fraud risk, including 

risks stemming from composite identities. 

• Validate Internal Controls – Collectively, these insights can be used 

to assess the strength of existing controls as well as identify areas of 

improvement via an external, independent review.

• Customer-Centric Approach – We focus on understanding your needs, 

such as business, technology, and timing to recommend a solution that 

best fits you. 

DNP takes pride in being your trusted advisor on improper payments. 

We have a dedicated staff who will consult with you to understand your 

business challenges, identify which DNP service best fits your needs, and 

guide you through the onboarding process. To schedule an overview of 

our services and discuss your agency’s needs, please contact the DNP State 

Agency Lead, Jon Ortiz, at Jon.Ortiz@fiscal.treasury.gov or 202-874-9579.

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With the passing of the 

Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and 

Economic Security (CARES) Act 

(2020), the Coronavirus Response 

and Consolidated Appropriations 

Act (2021), and the American 

Rescue Plan (2021), federal and 

state agencies were provided funds 

to distribute direct economic 

assistance for American workers, 

families, small businesses, and 

industries. Agencies have been 

tasked with allocating the $5T in 

funds efficiently and effectively. The 

volume of funds and the speed in 

which funds were made available 

can present serious oversight 

challenges for agencies responsible 

for being effective stewards of 

taxpayer funds. This is where Do 

Not Pay (DNP) can assist. 

The Payment Integrity Information 

Act of 2019 (PIIA) defines 

improper payments as any 

payment that should not have 

been made or that was made in 

an incorrect amount, including an 

overpayment or underpayment, 

under a statutory, contractual, 

administrative, or other legally 

applicable requirement. According 

to paymentaccuracy.gov, an 

Engaging with DNP Will Help Mitigate Pandemic Relief Disbursement Risks 

estimated $206B were identified as 

improper payments for fiscal year 

(FY) 2020. This is an increase of 

$32B compared to FY2019. DNP, 

which is authorized and governed 

by PIIA, and several OMB 

memoranda and circulars, provides 

a variety of data matching and data 

analytics services to support agency 

programs in their efforts to prevent 

and detect improper payments. 

DNP can assist in the 

determination of eligibility for 

individuals and entities through 

pre-award and pre-payment checks. 

Using DNP’s bulk file matching 

functionality can be a quick and 

efficient solution to verify the 

large volume of funds set to be 

disbursed, and ensure it is okay to 

pay an individual or entity before 

you start to pay. The bulk matching 

functionality also allows an agency 

to continuously monitor eligibility 

throughout the time the individual 

or entity is set to receive payments. 

Additionally, bulk matching can 

save time by providing next day 

results to assist agencies in their 

eligibility determinations. 

As solutions may vary in 

accordance with each agency’s 

business needs, DNP also offers 

several data analytics services 

to assist with improper payment 

identification. DNP Analytics 

acts by analyzing agency data 

to provide insights on strategies, 

identify areas for focus based 

on risk and dollar loss, identify 

areas for process improvements, 

and provide general consultation 

services. The DNP Analytics 

Team accomplishes these tasks 

by using several techniques, such 

as: data matching, data modeling, 

risk assessment and advanced 

algorithms. Through DNP 

Analytics, Pandemic Relief Funds 

can be reviewed to ensure they 

meet eligibility requirements.

DNP has many solutions that have 

been proven to work. In FY2020 

alone, there are 47 agencies with 

over 2,400 users who identified 

$12.2M in improper payments. 

Additionally, there have been 

over $31M of improper payments 

stopped before they were issued. 

DNP has many solutions that are 

dedicated to assisting agencies 

in identifying, reducing and/

or eliminating their improper 

payment amounts in an effective 

and timely fashion. Please take 

advantage of DNP’s free services 

by contacting the DNP mailbox at 

donotpay@fiscal.treasury.gov.

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DNP Can Provide 

Solutions to Business 

Problems Spanning 

Across Agencies

Does your agency report estimated improper 

payments due to “Inability to Authenticate 

Eligibility: Inability to Access Data”? Do your 

resource limitations prohibit your agency 

from entering into an annual Computer 

Matching Agreement (CMA) with a fellow 

agency to share data needed to accurately 

compute an award or benefit? Do Not Pay 

(DNP) Analytics may be the solution 

for your agency! 

DNP will work with your agency to: 

• fully understand requirements 

for identifying potential crossgovernment award overlap;

• create a definition of award overlap; and 

• outline solutions to allow your agency 

to identify potential cross-government 

overlap more efficiently and effectively. 

DNP can partner with your agency in an initial 

custom analytics project to analyze payment 

overlap and identify potential improper 

payments. DNP can also assist your agency if 

they are entering into a CMA with DNP or in 

drafting a CMA Waiver Request, if required. 

Please contact your agency’s appointed DNP 

Agency Lead or Agency Specialist (find your 

agency’s contacts in the Contact List at the end 

of this newsletter) for more information. 

Do Not Pay (DNP) continues to design and 

develop new products to meet our customers’ 

ever-changing needs. DNP’s previous analytics 

projects have been successful at helping 

customers identify improper payments. As more 

programs, agencies, and audit groups hear of 

DNP customer successes, DNP is receiving more 

requests from customers seeking immediate 

assistance to address their improper payment 

issues. To meet this increased demand from 

customers for quick, actionable results, DNP 

has pioneered new analytics solutions that 

provide customers with the same quality 

of results from traditional analytics 

projects, but in less time. 

Over the past year, the analytics team 

at DNP has developed a new analytics 

solution for customers requiring expedient 

analyses of their payment data. This new 

approach leverages the same types of analyses as 

a traditional analytics project but takes advantage 

of automated processes to produce faster results. 

This approach harnesses the power of the DNP 

Portal in conjunction with other data quality and 

data integrity analysis to help customers identify 

improper payments and assess the quality and 

integrity of their data.

This combination of the Portal results with data 

analyses has enabled DNP to provide customers 

with results similar to a full-scale analytics project, 

but in less than half the time. DNP customers 

DNP Delivers Quicker Eligibility 

Results to Empower Customers

that have used this combination for their improper 

payment needs have been able to uncover 

hundreds of deceased individuals within their 

payment file and identify potentially hundreds of 

thousands of dollars in improper payments. These 

customers have also benefited from receiving these 

results quickly, enabling them to take immediate 

action by stopping future payments to these 

individuals and reclaiming previous payments 

wrongly disbursed. 

The success from DNP’s hybrid-type analytics 

projects has prompted the DNP Analytics Team to 

develop an even more sophisticated product called 

the Eligibility Verification & Risk Solution. The 

Eligibility Verification & Risk Solution Tool will 

conduct data-matching as well as data integrity and 

quality analysis and will be available for customers 

in early 2022. DNP plans to keep building the tool 

to include other components of larger analytics 

projects that DNP’s customers will benefit from, 

such as providing automated written reports 

and data matching to other data sources (like 

debarment data), and other customizations. Please 

contact your Agency Lead and Agency Specialist 

(find your agency’s contacts in the Contact List 

at the end of this newsletter) to discuss engaging 

with DNP for analytics solutions for your agency’s 

payment integrity.

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CFO Act Agencies Do Not Pay Contacts

Agency Agency Lead Email Agency Specialist Email

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Dominique McCreary dominique.mccreary@fiscal.treasury.gov Drew Hubbard drew.hubbard@stls.frb.org

Department of Commerce (Commerce) Stephanie Weakley stephanie.weakley@fiscal.treasury.gov Shannon Alkhalaf shannon.alkhalaf@stls.frb.org

Department of Defense (DoD) Stephanie Weakley stephanie.weakley@fiscal.treasury.gov Kristofer Klette kristofer.klette@stls.frb.org

Department of Education (ED) Jon Ortiz jon.ortiz@fiscal.treasury.gov Kristofer Klette kristofer.klette@stls.frb.org

Department of Energy (DOE) Jon Ortiz jon.ortiz@fiscal.treasury.gov Kristofer Klette kristofer.klette@stls.frb.org

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Jon Ortiz jon.ortiz@fiscal.treasury.gov Josh Stegemann joshua.p.stegemann@stls.frb.org

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Stephanie Weakley stephanie.weakley@fiscal.treasury.gov Shannon Alkhalaf shannon.alkhalaf@stls.frb.org

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Dominique McCreary dominique.mccreary@fiscal.treasury.gov Josh Stegemann joshua.p.stegemann@stls.frb.org

Department of Justice (Justice) Lori Makle-Sellman lori.makle-sellman@fiscal.treasury.gov Kristofer Klette kristofer.klette@stls.frb.org

Department of Labor (DOL) Lori Makle-Sellman lori.makle-sellman@fiscal.treasury.gov Shannon Alkhalaf shannon.alkhalaf@stls.frb.org

Department of State (State) Stephanie Weakley stephanie.weakley@fiscal.treasury.gov Shannon Alkhalaf shannon.alkhalaf@stls.frb.org

Department of the Interior (DOI) Stephanie Weakley stephanie.weakley@fiscal.treasury.gov Kristofer Klette kristofer.klette@stls.frb.org

Department of the Treasury (Treasury) Stephanie Weakley stephanie.weakley@fiscal.treasury.gov Josh Stegemann joshua.p.stegemann@stls.frb.org

Department of Transportation (DOT) Lori Makle-Sellman lori.makle-sellman@fiscal.treasury.gov Drew Hubbard drew.hubbard@stls.frb.org

Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) Stephanie Weakley stephanie.weakley@fiscal.treasury.gov Shannon Alkhalaf shannon.alkhalaf@stls.frb.org

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Jon Ortiz jon.ortiz@fiscal.treasury.gov Kristofer Klette kristofer.klette@stls.frb.org

General Services Administration (GSA) Stephanie Weakley stephanie.weakley@fiscal.treasury.gov Drew Hubbard drew.hubbard@stls.frb.org

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lori Makle-Sellman lori.makle-sellman@fiscal.treasury.gov Kristofer Klette kristofer.klette@stls.frb.org

National Science Foundation (NSF) Lori Makle-Sellman lori.makle-sellman@fiscal.treasury.gov Shannon Alkhalaf shannon.alkhalaf@stls.frb.org

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Jon Ortiz jon.ortiz@fiscal.treasury.gov Kristofer Klette kristofer.klette@stls.frb.org

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Lori Makle-Sellman lori.makle-sellman@fiscal.treasury.gov Drew Hubbard drew.hubbard@stls.frb.org

Small Business Administration (SBA) Lori Makle-Sellman lori.makle-sellman@fiscal.treasury.gov Shannon Alkhalaf shannon.alkhalaf@stls.frb.org

Social Security Administration (SSA) Lori Makle-Sellman lori.makle-sellman@fiscal.treasury.gov Josh Stegemann joshua.p.stegemann@stls.frb.org

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Stephanie Weakley stephanie.weakley@fiscal.treasury.gov Shannon Alkhalaf shannon.alkhalaf@stls.frb.org

For Non-CFO Act Agencies, please email the Do Not Pay (DNP) mailbox at donotpay@fiscal.treasury.gov to request the names of your contacts.