# Garnishment of Accounts Containing Federal Benefit Payments
> **Fiscal Service** · Interim final rule with request for public comment. · Published 2011-02-23 · Effective 2011-05-01 · 76 FR 9939
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-3782
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** Fiscal Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 9939
- **CFR reference:** 5 CFR 831
- **Publication date:** 2011-02-23
- **Effective date:** 2011-05-01
## Abstract

Treasury, SSA, VA, RRB and OPM (Agencies) are issuing an interim final rule to implement statutory restrictions on the garnishment of Federal benefit payments. The rule establishes procedures that financial institutions must follow when they receive a garnishment order against an account holder who receives certain types of Federal benefit payments by direct deposit. The rule requires financial institutions that receive such a garnishment order to determine the sum of such Federal benefit payments deposited to the account during a two month period, and to ensure that the account holder has access to an amount equal to that sum or to the current balance of the account, whichever is lower.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/02/23/2011-3782/garnishment-of-accounts-containing-federal-benefit-payments)
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