{"data":{"id":"us/5-cfr-1215.10","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"5 CFR 1215.10","heading":"Statute of limitations.","body":"If a debt has been outstanding for more than 10 years after the agency's right to collect the debt first accrued, the agency may not collect by salary offset unless facts material to the Government's right to collect were not known and could not reasonably have been known by the official or officials who were charged with the responsibility for discovery and collection of such debts.","path":["Title 5—Administrative Personnel","CHAPTER II—MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD","SUBCHAPTER A—ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURES","PART 1215—DEBT MANAGEMENT","Subpart A—Salary Offset"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-5.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:23:53Z","sha256":"c9c61f98111d2a858eab229d3c14ea26c16f9917b90be7816a20ab2b904c235c","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/5-cfr-1215.9","next":"us/5-cfr-1215.11"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}