Legal Authorities for Debt Management
Below are links to pages about the various laws, statutes, guidelines, executive orders and federal regulations that govern debt collection activities.
Debt Management
A program of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service
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Fiscal Service A-Z Index
This A–Z Index lists all Fiscal Service content. You can also view just the Programs & Services.
A
- About the Fiscal Service
- Accessibility Statement
- ACH - Automated Clearing House
- ACH Payment Schedule: Recurring Benefits and Military Active Duty, Reserves, and Benefits
- AWG - Administrative Wage Garnishment
- Agency Outreach
- APG - Agency Priority Goal
- America's Finance Guide
- Annual Fiscal Service Letters
- Annual Report, United States Government
- Anti-Harassment Policy Statement
- ASAP - Automated Standard Application for Payment
B
C
- CAS - Card Acquiring Service
- Careers
- CMIA - Cash Management Improvement Act
- CARS - Central Accounting Reporting System
- CRS - Centralized Receivables Service
- Certifying Officer Training
- CFS - Consolidated Financial Statements of the United States Government
- Check Claims
- Check Payment Formats
- Check Reclamation Guide: The Gold Book
- CIR - Collections Information Repository
- Circular 176: Depositaries and Financial Agents of the Federal Government (31 CFR 202)
- Circular 570: Treasury’s Approved Listing of Sureties
- Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays, and Balances of the United States Government
- Contact the Fiscal Service
- Credit Gateway
- Credit Reform Accounting
- Cross-Servicing (Debt Collection)
- Current Value of Funds Rate
D
E
- EagleCash
- eCollections
- eCommerce Collections
- Electronic Check Processing
- EFTPS - Electronic Federal Tax Payment System
- Electronic Funds Transfer
- EEO Complaint Process
- EEO/Diversity Policy Statement
- EFT Payment Formats
- E-Mail Notification Service
- Exchange Rates (Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange)
- EZPay
- Events
F
- FAST - Federal Accounts Symbols and Titles (FAST Book)
- FEDInvest – FedInvest - Federal Investments Program
- Federal Borrowings Program
- Federal Disbursement Services (formerly National Payment Center of Excellence)
- Federal Tax Application
- Federal Tax Collection Service
- FIT - Financial Innovation and Transformation
- Financial Management and Standardization
- Financial Management Standards
- FM QSMO – Financial Management Quality Service Management Office
- FMSC – Financial Management Standards Committee
- Financial Report of the United States Government
- Fiscal Service Data Registry
- Fiscal Service Locations
- FM Vision
- FOIA - Freedom of Information Act
- Foreign Claims (Unpaid)
- Forms
- Franchise Services
- Fund Balance With Treasury
G
- G-Invoicing
- General Fund
- General Lockbox Network
- General Public, Services for
- Gifts to reduce the Public Debt
- Gifts to the United States Government
- Gold Book (Reclamations Procedures)
- Go Direct
- Gold Report
- Government Agencies, Services for
- GWA – Governmentwide Accounting
- GFRS – Governmentwide Financial Report System
- GTAS – Governmentwide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System
- Governmentwide Debt Collection
- Green Book
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K
M
- MBDP - Minority Bank Deposit Program
- MMC - Military Meal Checks Program
- Modernization, Innovation, and Payment Resolution (formerly National Payment Integrity and Resolution Center)
- MSPD - Monthly Statement of the Public Debt
- MTS - Monthly Treasury Statement
N
- National Payment Center of Excellence (NPCE) (now Federal Disbursement Services)
- National Payment Integrity and Resolution Center (now Modernization, Innovation, and Payment Resolution)
- NPCE Payment News (now Federal Disbursement Services)
- Navy Cash/Marine Cash
- News from the Fiscal Service
O
P
- PACER - Payments, Claims and Enhanced Reconciliation
- PAM - Payment Automation Manager
- PICOE - Payment Integrity Center
- PFC - Philadelphia Financial Center (now Modernization, Innovation, and Payment Resolution)
- PPMI - Post Payment Modernization Initiative
- Pay.gov
- Payment Formats
- PIR - Payment Information Repository
- PFC Journal
- Press Releases
- Private Relief Act
- Privacy and Civil Liberties Impact Assessments
- Privacy Policy and Legal Notices
- Prompt Payment
- Public Affairs, Legislative and (LPA)
- Public, Services for the
- Publications, Fiscal Service
R
S
- SAM - Shared Accounting Module
- SGL/USSGL - United States Standard General Ledger
- SLGS – State and Local Government Securities
- SPS - Secure Payment System
- Savings Bonds
- Shared Services
- Standard General Ledger, United States (USSGL)
- State and Local Government Securities Overview
- State and Local Tax Withholding
- Statements
- Status Report of U.S. Treasury-Owned Gold
- Stored Value Card
- SDA – Summary Debt Accounting
- Surety Bonds
- Systems Access
T
- TIN - Taxpayer Identifying Number
- TRO - Tax Refund Offset
- Tax Refund Offset FAQ
- Training Opportunities
- TAS - Treasury Account Symbol
- TAR - Treasury Annual Report Appendix
- Treasury Bank Mentor-Protégé Program
- Treasury Bulletin
- TCIS - Treasury Check Information System
- Treasury Check Security Features
- TCMM - Treasury Collateral Management & Monitoring
- TFM - Treasury Financial Manual
- TMA - Treasury Managed Accounts
- TOP - Treasury Offset Program
- TROR - Treasury Report on Receivables
- TGA - Treasury General Account
- Treasury Securities and Programs
- TSS - Treasury Securities Services
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