Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996: Status of Selected Agencies' Implementation of Administrative Wage Garnishment.

摘要

On October 10, 2001, we testified before your subcommittee on selected federal agencies implementation of the Debt Collection Improvement Act (DCIA) of 1996. That law established a framework for improved federal debt collection governmentwide using various debt collection tools. One of these tools is administrative wage garnishment (AWG), which DCIA authorizes, but does not require, agencies to use. This report provides more detailed information on the extent to which nine large Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act agencies use or plan to use AWG to collect delinquent nontax federal debt and our perspective on additional efforts that are needed to make AWG a more effectively and commonly used debt collection tool.