[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR845.404]

[Page 360]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED)
 
PART 845_FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM_DEBT COLLECTION--Table of 
 
 Subpart D_Agency Requests to OPM for Recovery of a Debt From the Civil 
                         Service Retirement Fund
 
Sec.  845.404  Conditions for requesting an offset.

    An agency may request that money payable from the Fund be offset to 
recover any valid debt due the United States when all of the following 
conditions are met:
    (a) The debtor failed to pay all of the debt on demand, or the 
creditor agency has collected as much as possible from payments due the 
debtor from the paying agency; and
    (b) The creditor agency sends a debt claim to OPM (under Sec.  
845.405(b) (1), (2), (3) or (4), as appropriate) after doing one of the 
following:
    (1) Obtaining a court judgment for the amount of the debt;
    (2) Following the procedures required by 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 4 CFR 
102.4;
    (3) Following the procedures required by 5 U.S.C. 5514 and subpart K 
of part 550 of this chapter; or
    (4) Following the procedures agreed upon by the creditor agency and 
OPM, if it is excepted by Sec.  845.405(b)(4) from the completion of 
procedures prescribed by Sec.  845.405(b)(3).