---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3515c"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3515c"
heading: "Offset against Federal payments to States for provision of services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3515c"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — Department of Health and Human Services"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §3515c. Offset against Federal payments to States for provision of services


For any program funded in this Act or subsequent Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related [Agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) Appropriations Acts, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Health and Human Services is authorized, when providing services or conducting activities for a [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) with respect to such program for which the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) is entitled to reimbursement by the [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), to obtain such reimbursement as an offset against Federal payments to which the [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) would otherwise be entitled under such program from funds appropriated for the same or any subsequent fiscal year. Such offsets shall be credited to the appropriation account which bore the expense of providing the service or conducting the activity, and shall remain available until expended.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–394, title II, § 214, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1812.)