[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR33.1]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 33_SALARY OFFSET--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 33.1  Purpose, authority, and scope.

    (a) Purpose. This part prescribes the Department's standards and 
procedures for the collection of debts owed by Federal employees to the 
United States through involuntary salary offset.
    (b) Authority. 5 U.S.C. 5514; 5 CFR Part 550, subpart K.
    (c) Scope. (1) This part applies to internal and Government-wide 
collections of debts owed by Federal employees by administrative offset 
from the current pay account of the debtor without his or her consent.
    (2) The procedures contained in this part do not apply to any case 
where an employee consents to collection through deduction(s) from the 
employee's pay account, or to debts arising under the Internal Revenue 
Code or the tariff laws of the United States, or where another statute 
explicitly provides for, or prohibits, collection of a debt by salary 
offset (e.g., travel advances in 5 U.S.C. 5705 and employee training 
expenses in 5 U.S.C. 4108).

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    (3) This part does not preclude an employee from requesting waiver 
of an erroneous payment 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, 
in the manner prescribed by the Secretary. Similarly, this part does not 
preclude an employee from requesting waiver of the collection of a debt 
under any other applicable statutory authority.
    (4) Nothing in this part precludes the compromise of the debt, or 
the suspension or termination of collection actions, in accordance with 
part 30 of this title.