Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: July 5, 2024) |
Title 12 - Banks and Banking |
Chapter XVII - Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Department of Housing and Urban Development |
SubChapter A - OFHEO Organization and Functions |
Part 1704 - DEBT COLLECTION |
Subpart C - Administrative Offset |
§ 1704.46 - Requests for administrative offset from other Federal agencies.
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(a) Any agency may request that funds due and payable to a debtor by OFHEO be administratively offset in order to collect a debt owed to such agency by the debtor.
(b) OFHEO shall initiate the requested administrative offset only upon:
(1) Receipt of written certification from the creditor agency that:
(i) The debtor owes the debt, including the amount and basis of the debt;
(ii) The agency has prescribed regulations for the exercise of administrative offset; and
(iii) The agency has complied with its own administrative offset regulations and with the applicable provisions of the FCCS, including providing any required hearing or review.
(2) A determination by OFHEO that collection by administrative offset against funds payable by OFHEO would be in the best interest of the Federal Government as determined by the facts and circumstances of the particular case and that such administrative offset would not otherwise be contrary to law.