# Debt Collection Authorities Under the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996
> **Fiscal Service** · Interim final rule. · Published 2009-06-11 · Effective 2009-06-11 · 74 FR 27707
## Document
- **Document number:** E9-13617
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** Fiscal Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 74 FR 27707
- **CFR reference:** 31 CFR 285
- **Publication date:** 2009-06-11
- **Effective date:** 2009-06-11
## Abstract

The Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Service, is amending its regulation governing the centralized offset of federal payments to collect nontax debts owed to the United States. The amendment removes the time limitation on the collection of nontax debts by centralized offset, consistent with a change in the statute on which it is based. The statutory change, enacted as part of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, allows for the use of centralized offset of federal payments, including federal salary payments, to collect nontax debts owed to the United States irrespective of the amount of time the debt has been outstanding.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2009/06/11/E9-13617/debt-collection-authorities-under-the-debt-collection-improvement-act-of-1996)
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