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GAO-12-870R 1 (2012-09-13)

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        Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548




                                   September 13, 2012

                                   The Honorable Thomas R. Carper
                                   Chairman
                                   The Honorable Scott P. Brown
                                   Ranking Member
                                   Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government
                                     Information, Federal Services, and International Security
                                   Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
                                   United States Senate

                                   Subject: Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996: Status of Treasury's
                                   Centralized Efforts to Collect Delinquent Federal Nontax Debt

                                   This report transmits the enclosed briefing slides1 and related information
                                   that we presented to your offices on August 29, 2012, in response to your
                                   request for a description of the status of the Department of the Treasury's
                                   (Treasury) centralized debt collection efforts under the Debt Collection
                                   Improvement Act of 1996 (DCIA).2 DCIA was intended, among other
                                   things, to maximize collection of delinquent federal nontax debt. DCIA
                                   requires federal agencies to notify Treasury of federal nontax debt
                                   delinquent over 180 days for purposes of payment offset and requires
                                   agencies to refer such debt to Treasury for centralized collection action
                                   (known as cross-servicing). To facilitate debt collection, DCIA, in concert
                                   with other federal debt collection laws that the act amended, authorizes
                                   several debt collection tools and bars delinquent federal nontax debtors
                                   from receiving additional federal loans, loan insurance, or loan
                                   guarantees until such debtors resolve their delinquencies. Treasury's
                                   centralized delinquent federal nontax debt collection efforts include the










                                   1See enc. I for our briefing slides.
                                   2pub. L. No. 104-134, § 31001, 110 Stat. 1321-358 (Apr. 26, 1996).


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