---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 34.8"
title: "34"
number: "34.8"
heading: "Providing a hearing."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/34.8"
---

# §34.8. Providing a hearing.

- (a) We provide a hearing if you submit a written request for a hearing concerning the existence, amount, or enforceability of the debt or the rate of wage withholding.
- (b) At our option the hearing may be an oral hearing under [§ 34.9](/cfr/34/34.9.md) or a paper hearing under [§ 34.10](/cfr/34/34.10.md).

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

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