Appropriation Lapsed Before Payment Release Email Template

Use this page when the buyer says the original appropriation, authorization, or fiscal authority lapsed before your invoice was actually released for payment. This is different from a missing appropriation code or a general funds hold. The spending authority existed, but timing or administrative delay caused that authority to expire before cash moved. Your email should ask whether a renewal or replacement appropriation is already in process, whether the invoice remains fully approved pending only renewed authority, who owns the reauthorization, and when the payment can be released once the appropriation is restored. The outcome you want is to stop the buyer from treating a lapsed authority as a dead end. It is commercially strong because the supplier is facing non-payment caused by the buyer's internal timing failure rather than any defect in invoice validity or performance.