---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 537.103"
title: "5"
number: "537.103"
heading: "Agency student loan repayment plans."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/537.103"
---

# §537.103. Agency student loan repayment plans.


Before providing student loan repayment benefits under this part, an agency must establish a student loan repayment plan. This plan must include the following elements:

- (a) The designation of officials with authority to review and approve offering student loan repayment benefits (which may parallel the approval delegations used for other recruitment, relocation, and retention incentives);
- (b) The situations in which the student loan repayment authority may be used;
- (c) The criteria to meet or consider in authorizing student loan repayment benefits, including criteria for determining the size and timing of the loan payment(s);
- (d) A system for selecting employees (or job candidates) to receive student loan repayment benefits that ensures fair and equitable treatment;
- (e) The requirements associated with service agreements (including a basis for determining the length of service to be required if it is greater than the statutory minimum);
- (f) The procedures for making loan payments;
- (g) The provisions for recovering any amount outstanding from an employee who fails to satisfy a service agreement and conditions for waiving an employee's obligation to reimburse the agency for payments made under this part; and
- (h) Documentation and recordkeeping requirements sufficient to allow reconstruction of each action to approve a student loan repayment benefit.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 2301, 2302, and 5379(g). E.O. 11478, 3 CFR, 1966-1970 Comp., p. 803, unless otherwise noted; E.O. 13087, 63 FR 30097, 3 CFR, 1998 Comp., p. 191; and E.O. 13152, 65 FR 26115, 3 CFR, 2000 Comp., p. 264.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 64865, Oct. 31, 2008, unless otherwise noted.