Are federal agencies required to conduct administrative offset?
The DCIA requires any federal agency that is owed a debt that is over 180 days delinquent must notify Treasury of the debt for purposes of administrative offset. The administrative offset program in Treasury is known as the Treasury Offset Program. The disbursing officials of Treasury, Defense, Postal Service, or any other Government corporation, or any other disbursing official designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall conduct administrative offset. • How do disbursing officials of agencies other than Treasury conduct administrative offset? Treasury works with non-Treasury disbursing officials to match their payments against the Treasury delinquent debtor database in order to offset payments to delinquent debtors. • May non-Treasury disbursing officials conduct administrative offset internally within their agencies to offset their own payments to collect their own debt? Yes. It is not necessary for an agency to refer its debts to Treasury for administrative offset, when it ma
