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Updates

Updates. 1998. 1999. 1996. 2000. 2001. 1997. 2002. 2007. 2008. 2010. 2009. Treasury Offset Program History. Debt Collection Improvement Act SBA Debts added OPM Check Payments Offset. SADO Vendor & Tax Payments Offset (State Reciprocal Program) CTX Vendor Payments

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  1. Updates

  2. 1998 1999 1996 2000 2001 1997 2002 2007 2008 2010 2009 Treasury Offset Program History Debt Collection Improvement Act SBA Debts added OPM Check Payments Offset SADO Vendor & Tax Payments Offset (State Reciprocal Program) CTX Vendor Payments SPS Type A Payments 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment ActPayments Postal NTDO, CMS for Offset OCSE, Education & 20 other Creditor Agencies New York SADO, 10 Year Statue of Limitations Lifted, CCR Flag Tax Levy & State Tax Debts OPM EFT, Vendor Check & EFT Payments Offset / 16 Creditor Agencies 2008 Stimulus Payments, RRB Payments, CMS NTDO for Levy TRO Payments Offset NTDO Vendor Payments Offset SSA & Federal Salary Payments Offset Tax Rebates

  3. TOP Database

  4. New Debts • Department of Labor • Unemployment Compensation Debts due to Fraud • States will submit debts directly to TOP • Debts will be offset against Federal Tax Refund Payment

  5. New Payment Types / Systems • Non Treasury Disbursing Offices • Working with Payment Management to identify NTDOs that are currently not participating in the Treasury Offset Program. • Bring some of the agencies into the TDO process. • Bring others into the NTDO process through TOP.

  6. State Reciprocal Program • New York started participating in January 2010 • Kentucky & West Virginia are planned for 1st quarter 2011 • Collections for Federal Non-Tax Debt 19,753 offsets for $11,619,455

  7. CCR Federal Debt Flag • Implemented on November 30, 2009 • Debt indicator flag on the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) • If a debt indicator flag is found, the government-wide commercial purchase card will not be authorized as a method of payment. • Changes were made to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)

  8. Payment Exemptions • HHS, CMS’ Gap Coverage Payments • DOI - BIA Title IV Pell Grant Payments • DOT - FHWA Uniform Relocation Act Payments http://www.fms.treas.gov/debt/regulations.html

  9. Tax Refund Collections

  10. Administrative Offset Collections

  11. Tax Levy Collections

  12. TOP Next Generation (NG) • Opportunity to Solve the Following Problems • Contention and Performance Issues • Ability to Increase Volume of Payment and Debt File Processing

  13. TOP Next Generation (NG) • Proof of Concept • Validate that the TOP Application can run on the z/OS Mainframe • Exceed Current Performance Requirements • Implement a Viable Check Point Restart

  14. Reminders • IRS Address Request • Purpose: To obtain addresses of debtors if your agency does not have one in order to send the required 60 day “Due Process” notice. • Referring a debt to TOP does not require an address from the IRS. • Remember to follow IRS requirements when your agency receives IRS Addresses.

  15. Reminders • Batch Processing • Update file(s) can be submitted 24/7 • Agency can use the cycle or date parameter. • Example:Incoming File Name from Agency • Cycle - FDMP.IPTOPUPD.C201013.AG99 (YYYYCC) • Date - FDMP.IPTOPUPD.D100314.AG99 (YYMMDD) • Update files are processed the following business morning after the file has been received. • Unprocessable files are sent after the Update file is processed.

  16. Reminders • Invalid Characters in an Update File • Valid characters are any characters that can be created from a keyboard. • Invalid characters mainly fall into a hex ’00’ (Low Value) or hex ‘FF’ (High Value) • Agencies must scan their files for these invalid characters prior to sending the file to TOP. TOP will scan each record for invalid characters. If any invalid characters are found, TOP will stop processing the file, notify the agency of the problem, and request a corrected file. • If invalid characters are found, the original input file is NOT returned to the agency.

  17. Reminders • Leading Spaces in an Update File A leading space in the: • State field will error out as an Invalid State Code. • Agency ID, Agency Site ID, Action, Record Type, Debtor TIN fields will error out and reject the record as having invalid information. (If there are leading spaces in the fields above, the record will not process.) • Last Name field causes the name control to be incorrect – limits offsets • Address, city, first name, middle initial and agency debt number fields are treated as a space and placed in the first byte of that field. “LJ” means Left Justified and the information should start in the left most field!!!!

  18. Questions ????

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