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I 1979
The Honorable Richardson Preyer
Chairman, Subcommittee on Government
Information and Individual Rights
Committee on Government Operations
House of Representatives
Dear Fr. Chairman:
By letter dated April 30, 1979, you forwarded the
comments of the staff of the Subcommittee on Government
Xnformation and Individual Rights on our recent report
entitled The Government Can Be More Productive in Collect-
ing Its Debts By Following Commercial Practices. (FGMSD-78-
59, February 23, 1979.) j,
The staff comments take issue with that portion of the
recommendation in Chapter 3 of our report that the Secretary
of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Administrator of
Veterans Affa rs
take action on their student loan
and educational assistance overpay-
ments to report to the credit bureau
network loans when incurred [and]
loans and overpayments being paid
in installments * * *.
The staff comments raise two primary objections to the
reporting of informatidn on debts which are not yet delin-
quent to the credit bureau network, both based on the argu-
ment that such reporting-would fail to qualify asia rbutine
use under the Privacy r Att. First, the comments maintain that
the report does not demonstrate that disclosure of non-
delinquent debt information will be useful or necessary.
Second, the comments question the propriety of releasing a
large volume of information to the credit bureau network on
the basis of an assumption that 'only a small amount of the
information released will actually aid in the collection, of
debts. Additionally, the comments argue that Chapter 3 ncon-
sistently recommends that in addition to the establishment
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