Source: 52 FR 3772, Feb. 5, 1987, unless otherwise noted.
(a) The regulations in this subpart establish procedures to
implement section 5 of the Debt Collection Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97-365),
5 U.S.C. 5514. This statute authorizes the head of each agency to deduct
from the current pay account of an employee (salary offset) when the
employee owes money to the United States. This subpart specifies the
agency procedures that will be available in a salary offset by the
Department of Labor of an employee's current pay account.
(b) Administrative offset is defined in 31 U.S.C. 3701(a)(1) as
``withholding money payable by the United States Government, to or held
by the Government for a person to satisfy a debt the person owes the
Government.''
A salary offset is a form of administrative offset and is separately
authorized and governed by 5 U.S.C. 5514. This authority is consistent
with and supplemented by administrative offset regulations of subpart B
of 29 CFR part 20.
