Welcome!
This is the first edition of the AZ ARNG
Government Travel Card News and Notes. Our intent is to help eliminate GTC delinquency
in the AZ ARNG by providing a regularly recurring forum to consolidate GTC information, provide guidance, tools and tips to
help cardholders and GTC Program Managers better understand their roles and responsibilities.
Comments and
feedback are encouraged. Please send any that you may have to Ms Shirley (Faye)
Butler at mailto:shirley.faye.butler@az.ngb.army.mil
GTC Self-Registration
Bank of America allows individual government travel card holders to register in order to access their government
credit card accounts. Once registered, card holders can then view their charges, make payments and use this feature as a tool
to better manage their government travel cards. This feature can be particularly useful to frequent travelers. In order to successfully register, card holders will need a copy of their statement
to enter the name exactly as it appears on the statement. The site to go to is
https://www.gcsuthd.bankofamerica.com/eagls_selfregistration/selfreg.aspx
PAYMENT METHODS
There are many ways available to help you ensure your GTC account is not delinquent:
·
Ensure you indicate an adequate amount to have split disbursed to the GTC when
you file your travel voucher. This is the preferred method!
·
Call Bank of America at 1-800-472-1424 to make a payment over the phone. You will be charged a $10 service fee!
·
Pay over the internet http://www.myeasypayment.com/ . You will not be assessed a fee using this method.
·
Walk into any Bank Of America and pay your bill and you will not be charged a fee.
Did You Know?
Effective
1 October 2005, the GTC is required to be used for airline tickets. What
you may not know is that in addition to the cost of the ticket, your account will incur a separate reimbursable charge of
$18.52. Expedited delivery of new cards will incur a $20.00 fee which is reimbursable.
Remember to indicate this on your travel voucher under reimbursable expenses
and include it in the amount to be split disbursed to help ensure you have a zero balance on your card after voucher processing
and don’t have to make a subsequent payment during the next billing cycle.
Short on cash?
If you have too much month at the end of your money, do not attempt to use your GTC to get around the issue. Remember that using the card for anything other than official expenses while in a
travel status is considered abuse. Abuse of the GTC will be covered in more detail
in the next issue of GTC N&N. In the meantime, check to see that your GTC
does not have a credit balance. If it does, you are essentially loaning Bank
of America you money for no charge and you are affecting the organization delinquency rate.
As of 31 May 2006 the AZ ARNG had $8,099.57 in credits on the GTC. And as of 30 Jun we had $10.889.35 so you can
see that this is going up rather than down. Some of the money
may be yours. This affects our delinquency rate and should be requested by the
cardholders. Call Bank of America at 1-800-472-1424 if this applies to you. To
find out if you have a balance, check your most recent statement. If you don’t
have a statement, self-register as described earlier at https://www.gcsuthd.bankofamerica.com/eagls_selfregistration/selfreg.aspx
Performance
As
stated earlier, the goal of this newsletter is to help ELIMINATE GTC delinquencies.
Delinquencies are defined as having not being more than 60 days past the billing date.
As an organization, we have been improving but still have a ways to go. States
are measured in two areas:
·
The amount of funds over 60
days delinquent as a percentage of total dollars outstanding (NGB standard is 2.0%); and
·
The number of cardholder with
funds over 60 days delinquent as a percentage of total number of cardholders (NGB standard is 1.5%).
During
2006, our percentage of delinquent dollars shown with the National amount is:
AZ NGB
Jan: 11.07
12.91
Feb: 3.43
6.80
Mar: 1.11
5.82
Apr: 3.20
4.75
May 3.92
3.87
Jun
4.30
5.55
During
2006, the percentage of cardholders with delinquent balances shown with the National amount is:
AZ NGB
Jan: 2.22
2.36
Feb: 1.28
1.70
Mar: 0.88
1.50
Apr: 1.47
1.50
May 1.53
1.34
Jun
1.13
1.71
Good to go!
The
following activities had no delinquent accounts for the last billing cycle:
USPFO
CHIEF
OF STAFF
HRO
CAMP
NAVAJO
91ST
CST
DCSLOG
DCSAVS
DISC4
Thanks
to all the activities for your hard work and for having no delinquencies!
True or False?
The
answer to the following questions will be revealed in the next GTC N&N. If
you have a specific question you would like an answer to, please let us know.
1.
Applying for a GTC will affect my credit score.
2. Being delinquent on my GTC will immediately affect my credit score.
3.If I have a credit balance on my GTC it’s ok to use it to buy flowers for someone.
Points of Contact (Primary and Alternate)
USPFO (Level 4)
P: Ms Butler 602-629-4640
A: Mr Law 602-267-2821
Major Activities (Level 5)
JFHQ
P: 1SG Smith 602-267-2882
A:
CHIEF OF STAFF
P: CPT Warren 602-267-2759
A: SFC Mottolo 602-267-2759
385th AHR
P: CPT Kuzinski 602-267-2639
A: MSG Sojourner 602-267-2867
153d FA BDE
P: SGT Baker 602-267-2529
A: SFC Zamora 602-267-2502
A: 1LT Davis 602-267-2377
98th TROOP CMD
P: SFC Cook 602-267-2696
A: SFC Byrd 602-267-2697
WAATS
P: SGT Barragan 520-616-5669
A: SSG Valenzuela 520-616-5521
CAMP NAVAJO
P: MAJ Garcia 928-773-3120
A: MAJ Reilly 928-773-3326
A: CSM Macklin 928-773-3270
91ST CST
P: SGT Mottolo 602-629-4229
A: SSG Hite 602-629-4388
HRO
P: Col Wehrle 602-629-4801
A: LTC Montgomery 602-629-4802
DCSPER
P: CW2 Carbajal 602-267-2963
A: CW3 Reidenhour 602-267-2909
DCSOPS
P: SSG Sinnema 602-267-2671
A:
DCSLOG
P: 2LT Rollison 602-267-2344
A: SFC Tibbetts 602-267-2780
JCNTF
P: CMSgt Bell 602-267-2498
A: SMSgt Means 602-267-2345
DCSAVS
P: Ms Derby 602-267-2863
A: CW2 Pedersen-602-267-2864
DISC4
P: LTC Gonzalez 602-267-2969
A:
Bank of America
1-800-472-1424
Border Mission
POC SMSgt James
Munoz
480-370-8274
