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Procedures for salary offset.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 5

(a) The Board will coordinate salary deductions under this subpart. (b) The Board's payroll office will determine the amount of an employee's disposable pay and will implement the salary offset. (c) Deductions will begin within three official pay periods following receipt by the Board's payroll office of certification for the creditor agency. (d) Types of collection— (1) (2) (3) (4) (e) Multiple debts. In instances where two or more creditor agencies are seeking salary offsets, or where two or more debts are owed to a single creditor agency, the Board's payroll office may, at its discretion, determine whether one or more debts should be offset simultaneously within the 15 percent limitation. (f) Precedence of debts owed to the Board. For Board employees, debts owed to the Board generally take precedence over debts owed to other agencies. In the event that a debt to the Board is certified while an employee is subject to a salary offset to repay another agency, the Board may decide whether to have the first debt repaid in full before collecting the claim or whether changes should be made in the salary deduction being sent to the other agency. If debts owed the Board can be collected in one pay period, the Board payroll office may suspend the salary offset to the other agency for

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 5:§ 1639.27