What is salary offset?
The Travel and Transportation Reform Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-264) mandates the use of the government contractor-issued travel charge card for all employees on official business. The Act allows an agency to collect from an employee’s disposable pay any undisputed delinquent amounts that are owed to a travel charge card contractor, upon written request from the contractor. This is known as salary offset. Each agency must follow the due process requirements of the Act as presented in the FTR before collecting undisputed delinquency amounts on behalf of the charge card contractor. Each agency must reach agreement with it bank on the process to be used for submittal of the request and handling of the request internally. Specific issues to be addresses by the agency include: (1) determine whether the individual is still employed by the agency; (2) determining whether the employee has been reimbursed for travel expenses; (3) determining the amount of disposable pay available for collectio
