[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR179.201]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 179_CLAIMS COLLECTION STANDARDS--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart B_Salary Offset
 
Sec. 179.201  Purpose.

    Source: 59 FR 35216, July 11, 1994, unless otherwise noted.


    The purpose of the Debt Collection Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97-365), is 
to provide a comprehensive statutory approach to the collection of debts 
due the Federal Government. These regulations implement section 5 of the 
Act which authorizes the collection of debts owed by Federal employees 
to the Federal Government by means of salary offset, except that no 
claim may be collected by such means if outstanding for more than 10 
years after the agency's right to collect the debt first accrued, unless 
facts material to the Government's right to collect were not known, and 
could not reasonably have been known, by the official or officials who 
were charged with the responsibility for discovery and collection of 
such debts. These regulations are consistent with the regulations on 
salary offset published by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on 
July 3, 1984 (49 FR 27470) in 5 CFR part 550, subpart K.