Cash Letter Recovery System (CLRS) provides an effective and efficient way to format ACH transactions for lost or destroyed cash letter items. CLRS creates a file of records in the NACHA XCK format, which was introduced on April 2, 1993, as an acceptable method of collecting payment for lost or destroyed cash letter items.

This is achieved by maintaining an index file (known as the Cash Letter Index file) of all Kill D-strings that have been processed by the CPCS MCRE task. The volume serial number and dataset name of the Master Create files are stored in the index. A CPCS operator can browse and select cash letters, or select specific kill bundles from within cash letters, from an on-line CPCS task (CRS). Once the cash letter(s) and/or kill bundle(s) are selected, the CPCS operator initiates a batch job from CLRS to process the cash letter(s) and/or kill bundles. The batch job retrieves the item detail from the appropriate Master Create files and passes the items through edits that determine whether each item qualifies as an XCK item for the ACH system. A file in XCK format is built, as well as an optional file for the items that did not qualify (known as "non-xck" items). Several reports are generated to assist in balancing and settlement. For items that do not qualify as XCK items, CLRS produces a report and optionally a file that can be used by the research and adjustments area in the recovery process.

The XCK file created by CLRS is in a standard NACHA format.

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