Where can i find more information about Debt Collection Improvement Act?
Where can i find more information about Debt Collection
Improvement Act?
Under current
legislation, effected by changes noted below in 1996. The actual code can be
read at:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ Information on the Debt Collection
Improvement Act can be found at:
http://www.fms.treas.gov/news/factsheets/dcia.html
It can be dry reading but it can also help you prepar for what can and can
not be done.
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(f)(1) With respect to any delinquent[86] amount, the Commissioner of Social
Security may use the collection practices described in sections 3711(f),
3716, 3717, and 3718 of title 31, United States Code, and in section 5514 of
title 5, United States Code, all as in effect immediately after the
enactment of the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996[87].
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the term "delinquent amount" means an
amount--
(A) in excess of the correct amount of payment under this title;
(B) paid to a person after such person has attained 18 years of age; and
(C) determined by the Commissioner of Social Security, under
regulations, to be otherwise unrecoverable under this section after such
person ceases to be a beneficiary under this title.