[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR179.308]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 179--CLAIMS COLLECTION STANDARDS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart C--Administrative Offset
 
Sec. 179.308  Accelerated procedures.

    OPM may make an administrative offset against a payment to be made 
to the debtor prior to the completion of the procedures required by 
Sec. Sec. 179.304 and 179.305 if failure to take the offset would 
substantially jeopardize OPM's ability to collect the debt, and the time 
before the payment is to be made does not reasonably permit the 
completion of those procedures. Such prior offset shall be promptly 
followed by the completion of those procedures. Amounts recovered by 
offset but later found not to be owed to OPM shall be promptly refunded.