---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 179.211"
title: "5"
number: "179.211"
heading: "Notice of salary offset."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/179.211"
---

# §179.211. Notice of salary offset.

- (a) Upon receipt of proper certification from a creditor agency, the OPM payroll office will send the OPM employee, identified in the certification as the debtor, a written notice of salary offset. Such notice shall, at a minimum:
  - (1) State that OPM has received a properly certified debt claim from a creditor agency;
  - (2) Contain a copy of the certification received from the creditor agency;
  - (3) Advise the employee that salary offset will be initiated at the next officially established pay interval; and
  - (4) **State the amount of the claim and amount of deductions.**
- (b) The payroll office shall provide a copy of the notice to the creditor agency and advise such agency of the dollar amount to be offset and the pay period when the offset will begin.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 59 FR 35216, July 11, 1994, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 31 U.S.C. 952; 5 U.S.C. 1103; Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1978; 5 U.S.C. 5514; 5 CFR part 550 subpart K; 31 U.S.C. 3701; 31 U.S.C. 3711; 31 U.S.C. 3716; 31 U.S.C. 3720A.