Entitlement Benefits Due and Payable
Definition
This account is used to record the amount of any unpaid entitlement benefits due to any qualifying entity, state, local, or tribal government as authorized by law as of the reporting date. This excludes loans, grants, or employee benefits. Entitlement benefits include but are not limited to: Federal Old-Age and Survivor's Insurance, Supplemental Security Income, Federal Disability Insurance, Federal Hospital Insurance (HI-Medicare, Part A), Federal Supplemental Medical Insurance (SMI-Medicare, Part B), Medicaid, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, U.S. Department of Agriculture Nutrition Assistance Programs, unemployment to non-federal employees, Black Lung Benefits, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Pension, and Railroad Retirement Pension Benefits, etc. This account does not close at year-end.
Year-end: This account does not close at year-end.
Source: Section II ·
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Required attributes & legal values
8For each attribute this account reports, these are the only domain values GTAS will accept for this account (Section IV).
Transactions
12Debit · Proprietary entry B115 To record a confirmed disbursement schedule where an upward adjustment of a prior-year unpaid delivered order was previously accrued.
Debit · Proprietary entry B408 To reclassify payable schedules for disbursements to "in-transit" until the payment schedule is confirmed.
Debit · Proprietary entry B420 To record the liability for costs to be funded in the future.
Credit · Proprietary entry D102 To record a downward adjustment to prior-year unpaid delivered orders and to reduce the liability when the adjustment is not recorded as a prior-period adjustment (USSGL account 740000 or 740100). The authority has expired.
Debit · Proprietary entry D106 To record an upward adjustment of prior-year unpaid delivered orders and to accrue additional liability when the adjustment is not recorded as a prior-period adjustment (USSGL account 740000 or 740100). The authority has expired.
Credit · Proprietary entry D107 To record an upward adjustment of prior-year unpaid delivered orders and to accrue additional liability when the adjustment is not recorded as a prior-period adjustment (USSGL account 740000 or 740100). The authority has not expired.
Credit · Proprietary entry D110 To record a downward adjustment to prior-year unpaid delivered orders and to reduce the related liability when the adjustment is not recorded as a prior-period adjustment (USSGL account 740000 or 740100). The authority has not expired.
Debit · Proprietary entry D134 To record the delivery of goods and services ordered in a prior year and accrue a liability. Expended authority is less than the original obligation and the authority is not expired.
Credit · Proprietary entry D308 To record a prior-period adjustment that reduces the value of a liability.
Debit · Proprietary entry D312 To record a prior-period adjustment that increases the value of a prior-year liability.
Credit · Proprietary entry E106 To record the accrued benefits at the end of the accounting period for unpaid estimated costs incurred. This entry is recorded by the benefit administering agency.
Credit · Proprietary entry