[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 41, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 41CFR105-56.024]

[Page 429]
 
           TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
 
              CHAPTER 105--GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 105-56_SALARY OFFSET FOR INDEBTEDNESS OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES TO THE 
UNITED STATES--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart C_Centralized Salary Offset (CSO) Procedures_GSA as Paying 
                                 Agency
 
Sec. 105-56.024  Purpose and scope.


    (a) This subpart establishes procedures for the offset of Federal 
salary payments, through the Financial Management Service's (FMS) 
administrative offset program, to collect delinquent debts owed to the 
Federal Government. This process is known as salary offset. Rules issued 
by the Office of Personnel Management contain the requirements Federal 
agencies must follow prior to conducting salary offset and the 
procedures for requesting offsets directly from a paying agency. See 5 
CFR parts 550.1101 through 550.1108.
    (b) This subpart implements the requirement under 5 U.S.C. 
5514(a)(1) that all Federal agencies, using a process known as 
centralized salary offset computer matching, identify Federal employees 
who owe delinquent non-tax debt to the United States. Centralized salary 
offset computer matching is the computerized comparison of delinquent 
debt records with records of Federal employees. The purpose of 
centralized salary offset computer matching is to identify those debtors 
whose Federal salaries should be offset to collect delinquent debts owed 
to the Federal Government.
    (c) This subpart specifies the delinquent debt records and Federal 
employee records that must be included in the salary offset matching 
process. For purposes of this subpart, delinquent debt records consist 
of the debt information submitted to FMS for purposes of administrative 
offset as required under 31 U.S.C. 3716(c)(6).
    (d) An interagency consortium was established to implement 
centralized salary offset computer matching on a Governmentwide basis as 
required under 5 U.S.C. 5514(a)(1). Federal employee records consist of 
records of Federal salary payments disbursed by members of the 
consortium.