[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1450.19]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER XII--FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE
 
PART 1450_COLLECTIONS OF CLAIMS OWED THE UNITED STATES--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart C_Salary Offset
 
Sec.  1450.19  Scope.

    (a) Coverage. This subpart applies to agencies and employees as 
defined by Sec.  1450.20.
    (b) Applicability. This subpart and 5 U.S.C. 5514 apply in 
recovering certain debts by offset, except where the employee consents 
to the recovery, from the current pay account of that employee. Because 
it is an administrative offset, debt collection procedures for salary 
offset which are not specified in U.S.C. 5514 and these regulations 
should be consistent with the provisions of the Federal Claims 
Collection Standards (4 CFR parts 101-105).
    (1) Excluded debts or claims. The procedures contained in this 
subpart do not apply to debts or claims arising under the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1954 as amended (26 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) or the tariff laws of the United 
States, or to any case where collection of a debt

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by salary offset is explicitly provided for or prohibited by another 
statute (e.g., travel advances in 5 U.S.C. 5705 and employee training 
expenses in 5 U.S.C. 4108).
    (2) Waiver requests and claims to the General Accounting Office. 
This subpart does not preclude an employee from requesting waiver of a 
salary overpayment under 5 U.S.C. 5584, 10 U.S.C. 2774, or 32 U.S.C. 
716, or in any way questioning the amount or validity of a debt by 
submitting a subsequent claim to the General Accounting Office in 
accordance with procedures prescribed by the General Accounting Office. 
Similarly, in the case of other types of debts, it does not preclude an 
employee from requesting waiver, if waiver is available under any 
statutory provision pertaining to the particular debt being collected.
    (c) Time limit. Under 4 CFR 102.3(b)(3), offset may not be initiated 
more than 10 years after the Government's right to collect the debt 
first accrued, unless an exception applies as stated in Sec.  
102.3(b)(3).