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RTP Rail Facts

How money moves on this rail, in 12 sourced records: what is final, what can be returned, recalled or refunded, who decides, and what the limits are. A profile belongs to the rulebook, so no reason code list is published on this page.

What the tier labels mean, and how far this page has been checked
Draft
An agent wrote it from published material and nobody has checked it. Use it as a lead to confirm, never on its own as the basis for a retry, a return, a deadline or a compliance decision.
Corroborated
A validator found the same answer in one or more named public sources; the class in brackets says how strong they are. "Secondary sources only" means bank, processor or industry guides and nothing from the operator or regulator. Corroborated does not mean checked against the governing rulebook, so confirm before you act.
Verified
A person checked it against The Clearing House's own current text and recorded the edition and date. The strongest tier here, and still reference material, not legal or compliance advice.

On a rail fact, every detail line names the section or instrument it rests on and whether that is a rule, a law, operator guidance, or observed practice.

Known gaps in this build

Not yet covered: this directory holds the RTP profile only; RTP reason codes sit in corpus/rtp-return-request and corpus/rtp-reject; TCH's own permitted code lists and the pacs.002 and camt.029 status sets: they sit in the RTP Message Specifications, gated by the RTP Documentation Agreement, which Orca has not accepted (docs/rails/rtp.md, Blocked); the reject codes in corpus/rtp-reject come from public bank and processor pages instead; ISO identifiers for the Request for Payment, Request for Information, Remittance Advice and Payment Acknowledgement; only pacs.008, pacs.002, camt.056 and camt.029 are confirmed by a public TCH document; the payment response time-out that triggers a system cancellation: set in the RTP Technical Specifications and not published; prefunded requirement amounts, per-participant sending limits and TCH origination control values: set per participant and not published; participant eligibility criteria and the general limitation of TCH liability: both sit in the RTP Participation Rules, which have not been read; Regulation E was read through the CFPB's presentation rather than section by section; eCFR refused a plain fetch, so the consumer-law facet caps at medium; Operating Rules editions effective 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-04, which add indirect domestic send and on line originator arrangements, have not been read.