[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: 29CFR1650.103]

[Page 384-385]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                               COMMISSION
 
PART 1650--DEBT COLLECTION--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart A--Procedures for the Collection of Debts by Salary Offset
 
Sec. 1650.103  Definitions.

    For the purpose of this subpart, terms are defined as follows:
    (a) Agency means:
    (1) An Executive agency as defined in section 105 of title 5, United 
States Code, including the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Postal Rate 
Commission;
    (2) A military department as defined in section 102 of title 5, 
United States Code;
    (3) An agency or court in the judicial branch, including a court as 
defined in section 610 of title 28, United States Code, the District 
Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Judicial Panel on 
Multidistrict Litigation;
    (4) An agency of the legislative branch, including the U.S. Senate 
and the U.S. House of Representatives; and
    (5) Other independent establishments that are entities of the 
Federal Government.
    (b) Creditor agency means an agency to which a debt is owed.
    (c) Debt means an amount owed to the United Stated from sources that 
include loans insured or guaranteed by the United States and all other 
amounts due the United States from fees, leases, rents, royalties, 
services, sales of real or personal property, overpayments, penalties, 
damages, interest, fines and forfeitures (except those arising under the 
Uniform Code of Military Justice), and all other similar sources.
    (d) Disposable pay means that part of current basic pay, special 
pay, incentive pay, retired pay, retainer pay, or, in the case of an 
employee not entitled to basic pay, other authorized pay remaining after 
the deduction of any amount required by law to be withheld. Deductions 
described in 5 CFR 581.105(b) through (f) will not be used to determine 
disposable pay subject to salary offset.
    (e) Employee means a current employee of an agency, including a 
current member of the Armed Forces or a Reserve of the Armed Forces 
(Reserves).
    (f) FCCS means the Federal Claims Collection Standards jointly 
published by the Justice Department and the General Accounting Office at 
4 CFR chapter II.
    (g) FRMS means Financial and Resource Management Services, EEOC 
Office of Management.
    (h) Paying agency means the agency employing the individual and 
authorizing the payment of his or her current pay.
    (i) Salary offset means an administrative offset to collect a debt 
under 5 U.S.C. 5514 by deduction(s) at one or more officially 
established pay intervals from the current pay account of

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an employee without his or her consent.
    (j) Waiver means the cancellation, remission, forgiveness, or non-
recovery of a debt allegedly owed by an employee to an agency as 
permitted or required by 5 U.S.C. 5584, 10 U.S.C. 2774, 32 U.S.C. 716, 5 
U.S.C. 8346(b), or any other applicable statute.