[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1650.102]

[Page 383-384]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                               COMMISSION
 
PART 1650--DEBT COLLECTION--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart A--Procedures for the Collection of Debts by Salary Offset
 
Sec. 1650.102  Scope.

    (a) Applicability. (1) The procedures in this subpart apply to the 
collection of debts owed to the Commission or another Federal agency by 
present or former Commission employees by offset against their basic 
pay, special pay, incentive pay, retired pay, retainer pay, or, in the 
case of an individual

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notentitled to basic pay, other authorized pay from the Commission or 
other agency pursuant to the offset authority in 5 U.S.C. 5514.
    (2) The procedures in this subpart apply to the collection by salary 
offset of the following types of debts owed to the United States: 
Interest, penalties, fees, direct loans, loans insured and guaranteed by 
the United States, leases, rents, royalties, services, sales of real or 
personal property, fines and forfeitures (except those arising under the 
Uniform Code of Military Justice), erroneous payments of pay and all 
other similar sources.
    (b) Non-applicability. The procedures in this subpart do not apply 
where collection of a debt by salary offset is explicitly provided for 
or prohibited by another statute (e.g., travel advances in 5 U.S.C. 5705 
and employee training expenses in 5 U.S.C. 4108). The procedures in this 
subpart also do not apply to debts or claims arising under the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1954 as amended, 25 U.S.C. 1 et seq., the Social 
Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 301 et seq., or the tariff laws of the United 
States.
    (c) Waiver requests and claims to the GAO. The procedures in this 
subpart do not preclude an employee from requesting waiver of a salary 
overpayment under 5 U.S.C. 5584, or any other similar provision of law, 
or in any way questioning the amount or validity of a debt by submitting 
a subsequent claim to the General Accounting Office.
    (d) Compromise, suspension, or termination under the Federal Claims 
Collection Standards. Nothing in this subpart precludes the compromise, 
suspension, or termination of 5 U.S.C. 5514 salary offset collection 
actions, where appropriate, in accordance with the Federal Claims 
Collection Standards in 4 CFR chapter II.