---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 C.F.R. § 29.504"
title: "31"
number: "29.504"
heading: "Status of debts."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/31/29.504"
---

# §29.504. Status of debts.


A payment of a Federal Benefit Payment to a debtor because of an error on the part of the Department or Benefits Administrator, or the failure of the creditor agency to properly and/or timely submit a debt claim, does not erase the debt or affect the validity of the claim by the creditor agency.


## Notes

### Source

Source: 66 FR 36705, July 13, 2001, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: Subtitle A and Chapter 3 of Subtitle H, of Pub. L. 105-33, 111 Stat. 712-731 and 786-787; as amended.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 77501, Dec. 12, 2000, unless otherwise noted.