Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 24, 2024

Title 45 - Public Welfare last revised: Nov 19, 2024
§ 1179.10 - Statute of limitations.

If a debt has been outstanding for more than 10 years after the agency's right to collect the debt first accrued, the agency may not collect by salary offset unless facts material to the Government's right to collect were not known and could not reasonably have been known by the official or officials who were charged with the responsibility for discovery and collection of such debts.

authority: 5 U.S.C. 5514,E.O. 11809 (redesignated E.O. 12107), and 5 CFR part 550, subpart K
source: 52 FR 28472, July 30, 1987, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 45 CFR 1179.10