Administracja i zamówienia · 11.07.2003

Administrative Wage Garnishment

The General Services Administration (GSA) is proposing to amend its regulations to implement the administrative wage garnishment provisions contained in the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 (DCIA). Wage garnishment is a process whereby an employer withholds amounts from an employee's wages and pays those amounts to the employee's creditor in satisfaction of a withholding order. The DCIA authorizes Federal agencies to administratively garnish the disposable pay of an individual to collect delinquent non-tax debts owed to the United States in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. This part was previously titled Collection of Debts by Tax Refund Offset. Effective January 1, 1999, the Department of Treasury started to conduct the tax refund offset program as part of the centralized offset program, known as the Treasury Offset Program (TOP), operated by the Financial Management Service (FMS), a bureau of the Department of Treasury. Since GSA has a cross-servicing agreement with FMS, which includes the TOP, the collection of debts by tax refund offset is no longer valid and is rescinded and replaced with the new part regarding administrative wage gar