---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 34.4"
title: "34"
number: "34.4"
heading: "Notice of proposed garnishment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/34.4"
---

# §34.4. Notice of proposed garnishment.

- (a) We may start proceedings to garnish your wages whenever we determine that you are delinquent in paying a debt owed to the United States under a program we administer.
- (b) **We start garnishment proceedings by sending you a written notice of the proposed garnishment.**
- (c) At least 30 days before we start garnishment proceedings, we mail the notice by first class mail to your last known address.
- (d)
  - (1) **We keep a copy of a certificate of service indicating the date of mailing of the notice.**
  - (2) We may retain this certificate of service in electronic form.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 31 U.S.C. 3720D, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 68 FR 8142, Feb. 19, 2003, unless otherwise noted.