---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 31.1"
title: "34"
number: "31.1"
heading: "Scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/31.1"
---

# §31.1. Scope.

- (a) **General.** The Secretary establishes the standards and procedures in this part that apply to the offset from disposable pay of a current or former Federal employee or from amounts payable from the Federal retirement account of a former Federal employee to recover a debt owed the United States under a program adminstered by the Secretary of Education.
- (b) **Exclusions.** This part does not apply to—
  - (1) Offsets under [34 CFR part 32](/cfr/34/part32.md) to recover for overpayments of pay or allowances to an employee of the Department;
  - (2) Offsets under [34 CFR part 30](/cfr/34/part30.md); or
  - (3) **Offsets under section 124 of Pub.** L. 97-276 to collect debts owed to the United States on judgments.
- (c) **Reports to consumer reporting agency.** The Secretary may report a debt to a consumer reporting agency after notifying the employee, in accordance with [34 CFR 30.35](/cfr/34/30.35.md), of the intention to report the debt, and after providing the employee an opportunity to inspect documents, receive a hearing, and enter into a repayment agreement under this part.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5514; 31 U.S.C. 3716.

### Source

Source: 54 FR 31821, Aug. 19, 1989, unless otherwise noted.