[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR1639.20]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
         CHAPTER VI--FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT INVESTMENT BOARD
 
PART 1639_CLAIMS COLLECTION--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart B_Salary Offset
 
Sec.  1639.20  Applicability and scope.


    (a) The regulations in this subpart provide Board procedures for the 
collection by salary offset of a Federal employee's pay to satisfy 
certain debts owed to the Board or to Federal agencies.
    (b) The regulations in this subpart apply to collections by the 
Executive Director, from:
    (1) Federal employees who owe debts to the Board; and
    (2) Employees of the Board who owe debts to Federal agencies.

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    (c) The regulations in this subpart do not apply to debts arising 
under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (title 26, United 
States Code); the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.); the 
tariff laws of the United States; or to any case where collection of a 
debt 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).
    (d) Nothing in the regulations in this subpart precludes the 
compromise, suspension, or termination of collection actions under the 
standards implementing the Federal Claims Collection Act (31 U.S.C. 3711 
et seq., 4 CFR Parts 101-105, 38 CFR 1.900-1.994).
    (e) A levy pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code takes precedence 
over a salary offset under this subpart, as provided in 5 U.S.C. 
5514(d).
    (f) This subpart does not apply to any adjustment to pay arising out 
of an employee's election of coverage or a change in coverage under a 
Federal benefits program requiring periodic deductions from pay, if the 
amount to be recovered was accumulated over four pay periods or less.