diff --git a/packages/money-account-balance-service/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/money-account-balance-service/CHANGELOG.md
index 886e6dc1ee5..b3a6c051d53 100644
--- a/packages/money-account-balance-service/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/money-account-balance-service/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+
+- Add `money-account-balance-service` to the root `tsconfig.json` and `tsconfig.build.json` files so that it is usable ([#8477](https://github.com/MetaMask/core/pull/8477))
+
 ## [0.1.0]
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/tsconfig.build.json b/tsconfig.build.json
index b02f3a882f5..d741e377268 100644
--- a/tsconfig.build.json
+++ b/tsconfig.build.json
@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@
     {
       "path": "./packages/messenger/tsconfig.build.json"
     },
+    {
+      "path": "./packages/money-account-balance-service/tsconfig.build.json"
+    },
     {
       "path": "./packages/money-account-controller/tsconfig.build.json"
     },
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 7eb3aadc457..74762bc7b6e 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@
     {
       "path": "./packages/messenger-cli"
     },
+    {
+      "path": "./packages/money-account-balance-service"
+    },
     {
       "path": "./packages/money-account-controller"
     },