Collect, compromise or offset debts owed to the Government
- Objective
- Choose a mission objective
- Family / instrument
- Enterprise resources and shared execution · Government debt recovery
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Head of the agency; Treasury/Justice roles as specified
- Executor · routing lead
- Authorized collection/disbursing and contracting officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Debt validation and notice, records access, review and repayment opportunity precede administrative offset; prescribed standards and regulations apply.
Agency retains compromise, dispute-resolution and litigation-referral decisions when using collectors.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Available administrative funds and any expressly allowed collection-fee arrangement; no unrestricted retention of all recovered money.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Ordinary §3711 compromise authority capped at $100,000 excluding interest or higher amount prescribed by Attorney General; fraud/false claims and antitrust claims excluded.
- Contractual recovery of assets held by state government or financial institution requires Treasury-approved procedures; statutory exemptions and protected payments remain.
Implementation caution: Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.
Actor sources
- 31 U.S.C. § 3711 statutory holder and conditions
- 31 U.S.C. § 3716 statutory holder and conditions
- 31 U.S.C. § 3718 statutory holder and conditions
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.