[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 45CFR31.1]



[Page 98-99]

 

                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                    SUBTITLE A--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

                           AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

PART 31_TAX REFUND OFFSET--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  31.1  Purpose and scope.



    (a) Purpose. This part prescribes the Department's standards and 

procedures for submitting past-due, legally enforceable debts to the 

Department of the Treasury for collection by tax refund offset.

    (b) Authority. These standards and procedures are authorized under 

the tax refund offset provision of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, as 

amended



[[Page 99]]



by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, codified at 31 U.S.C. 

3720A, and the implementing regulations issued by the Department of the 

Treasury at 31 CFR 285.2.

    (c) Scope. (1) This part applies to all Departmental Operating 

Divisions and Regional Offices that administer a program that gives rise 

to a past-due non-tax debt owed to the United States, and to all 

officers or employees of the Department authorized to collect such debt. 

This part does not apply to any debt or claim owed to the Department of 

Health and Human Services by another Federal agency.

    (2) Nothing in this part precludes the Department from pursuing 

other debt collection procedures, including administrative wage 

garnishment under part 32 of this title, to collect a debt that has been 

submitted to the Department of the Treasury under this part. The 

Department may use such debt collection procedures separately or in 

conjunction with the offset collection procedures of this part.