[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 24, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 24CFR17.103]



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                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

 

PART 17_ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS--Table of Contents

 

   Subpart C_Procedures for the Collection of Claims by the Government

 

Sec.  17.103  Exceptions to notice requirements.



    (a) In cases where the notice requirements specified in Sec.  17.102 

already have been provided to the debtor in connection with the same 

debt under some other proceeding, the Secretary is not required to 

duplicate those requirements before effecting administrative offset.

    (b) The Secretary may effect administrative offset against a payment 

to be made to a debtor before completion of the procedures required by 

Sec.  17.102 if (1) failure to make the offset would substantially 

prejudice the Government's ability to collect the debt, and (2) the time 

before the payment is to be made does not reasonably permit the 

completion of those procedures. Such prior offset must be followed 

promptly by the completion of those procedures. Amounts recovered by 

offset but later found not to be owed to the Secretary will be refunded 

promptly.