[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR30.2]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 30--CLAIMS COLLECTION--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 30.2  Definitions.

    In this part, unless the context otherwise requires--
    Amounts payable under the Social Security Act means payments by the 
Department to beneficiaries, providers, intermediaries, physicians, 
suppliers, carriers, States, or other contractors or grantees under a 
Social Security Act program, including: Title I (Grants to States for 
Old-Age Assistance and Medical Assistance for the Aged); Title II 
(Federal Old-Age Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits); Title 
III (Grants to States for Unemployment Compensation Administration); 
Title IV (Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families with 
Children and for Child-Welfare Services); Title V (Maternal and Child 
Health and Crippled Children's Services); Title IX (Unemployment 
Compensation Program); Title X (Grants to States for Aid to the Blind); 
Title XI, Part B (Peer Review of the Utilization and Quality of Health 
Care Services); Title XII (Advances to State Unemployment Funds); Title 
XIV (Grants to States for Aid to Permanently and Totally Disabled); 
Title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and 
Disabled); Title XVII (Grants to States to Fight Mental Retardation); 
Title XVIII (Medicare); Title XIX (Medicaid); and Title XX (Block Grants 
to States for Social Services). Federal employee salaries and other 
payments made by the Department in the course of administering the 
provisions of the Social Security Act are not deemed to be ``payable 
under'' the Social Security Act for purposes of this regulation.
    Claim or Debt means an amount of money or other property owed to the 
United States. Debts include, but are not limited to amounts owed on 
account of loans made, insured or guaranteed by the United States; 
salary overpayments to employees; overpayments to program beneficiaries; 
overpayments to contractors and grantees, including overpayments arising 
from audit disallowances; excessive cash advances to employees, grantees 
and contractors; civil penalties and assessments; theft or loss of money 
or property; and damages.
    Debtor means an individual, organization, association, partnership, 
corporation, or a State or local government or subdivision indebted to 
the Department; or the person or entity with legal responsibility for 
assuming the debtor's obligation.
    Debts arising under the Social Security Act are overpayments to, or 
contributions, penalties or assessments owed by, beneficiaries, 
providers, intermediaries, physicians, suppliers, carriers, States or 
other contractors or grantees under Titles I, II, III, IV, V, IX, X, XI 
(Part B), XII, XIV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX and XX of the Social Security 
Act. Salary overpayments and other debts that result from the 
administration of the provisions of the Social Security Act are not 
deemed to ``arise under'' the Social Security Act for purposes of this 
regulation.
    Department means the United States Department of Health and Human 
Services and each of its Operating Divisions and regional offices.
    Liquidated or certain in amount refers to a debt of an amount 
already fixed and determined by the Secretary, or which may be readily 
fixed and determined from the information available in the debt file, 
irrespective of any dispute by the debtor.
    Local government means a political subdivision, instrumentality, or 
authority of any State; the District of

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Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; a territory or possession of 
the United States; or an Indian tribe, band or nation.
    Operating Division means each separate component within the 
Department of Health and Human Services, and includes the Office of the 
Secretary, the Office of Human Development Services, the Family Support 
Administration, theCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Public 
Health Service and the Social Security Administration.
    Overdue refers to a debt not paid by the payment due date specified 
in the notice of the debt to the debtor (see Sec. 30.13(a)) and not the 
subject of a repayment agreement approved by the Secretary. Also, a debt 
subject to repayment agreement is considered overdue if the debtor fails 
to satisfy his or her obligations under that agreement. ``Overdue'' and 
``delinquent'' have the same meaning. See 4 CFR 101.2(b).
    Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services or the 
Secretary's designee within any Operating Division or Regional Office.