[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: 41CFR105-56.031]

[Page 432]
 
           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. 105-56.031  Notice.

    (a) The disbursing official will provide GSA an electronic list of 
the names, mailing addresses, and taxpayer identifying numbers of the 
debtors from whom amounts of past-due, legally enforceable debt are due 
other Federal agencies. The disbursing official will identify the 
creditor agency name and a point of contact that will handle concerns 
regarding the debt.
    (b) Before offsetting a salary payment, the GSA National Payroll 
Center, acting as the paying agency on behalf of the disbursing 
official, will notify the debtor in writing of the date deductions from 
salary will commence and of the amount of such deductions.
    (c)(1) When an offset occurs under this subpart, the disbursing 
official, or the GSA National Payroll Center on behalf of the disbursing 
official, will notify the debtor in writing that an offset has occurred 
including--
    (i) A description of the payment and the amount of offset taken;
    (ii) The identity of the creditor agency identified by the 
disbursing official requesting the offset; and
    (iii) A contact point at the creditor agency identified by the 
disbursing official that will handle concerns regarding the offset.
    (2) The information described in paragraphs (c)(1)(ii) and 
(c)(1)(iii) of this section does not need to be provided to the debtor 
when the offset occurs if such information was included in a prior 
notice from the disbursing official or the creditor agency.