Introduction
Claim payments always require approval process before they can be paid to a claim payment recipient.
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After a payment goes through Approval process in Claim module, it can be sent to accounting system or export to file. See Claim Accounting Integration
Prerequisites
User needs permission to Approve payments to take action on a payment in Approval process. See Claim Permissions
User needs to configure Limit Groups correctly so that system can automatically pick up the right user to assign to do payment approvals. See Limit Groups
Claim Payment State Diagram
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