Benefit Processing in PFMS

After the assigned Checker/ Approver Ni-kshay user clears benefits, Nikshay sends groups/ batches of benefits to PFMS as a "Payment Request" (DBTPayReq). PFMS processes these Payment Requests it receives from Ni-kshay before executing the request. Processing involves checking for any inconsistencies/ errors in the payment request at the batch level and at the benefit level. On processing:

• If there are no errors the Payment Request, payment can be initiated/executed. Payment initiation depends on availability of the Digital Signature of the assigned "Approver". If the Digital Signature is not present, the Payment Request is submitted to the Approver User (DA ID) in PFMS for physical signature through Print Payment Advice (PPA).
• If there are errors at either the batch level or at benefit level, the entire batch/ Payment Request would be rejected and sent back to Ni-kshay. Depending upon the type of error Nikshay either automatically corrects the errors/ re-batches them removing the erroneous benefits, or presents it back to the "Maker" user in Ni-kshay to address the error.

On execution of the Payment Advice from PFMS, PFMS communicates with the corresponding source bank to make the bank transfer. If the bank transfer is successful the benefit amount gets credited to the bank account of the bene­ficiary and the bank informs PFMS, which in turn informs Ni-kshay and the status of such Benefi­ts is updated/displayed in Ni-kshay as “Paid”.

Resources

• Direct Bene­fit Transfer Manual for National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme, MoHFW, Government of India, 2020.

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