{"data":{"id":"us/5-cfr-550.301","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"5 CFR 550.301","heading":"Definitions.","body":"In this subpart:\nAgency means an Executive agency as defined by section 105 of Title 5, United States Code.\nAllotment means a recurring specified deduction for a legal purpose from pay authorized by an employee to be paid to an allottee.\nAllottee means the person or institution to whom an allotment is made payable.\nAllotter means the employee from whose pay an allotment is made.\nAssociation of management officials and/or supervisors means an association composed of either management officials and/or supervisors with which the agency has established official relationships.\nCombined Federal Campaign means an organization of voluntary health and welfare agencies authorized to solicit charitable contributions in a local area in accordance with arrangements prescribed by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management under Executive Order 10927.\nContinental United States means the several States and the District of Columbia, but excluding Alaska and Hawaii.\nDues means the regular periodic amount specified by an allotter to be withheld from his or her pay which is required to maintain the allotter as a member in good standing in a labor organization or association of management officials and/or supervisors or other organization.\nEmployee means an employee of an agency who satisfies the definition of that term in 5 U.S.C. 2105.\nForeign affairs agency means the Department of State, the International Communications Agency, the Agency for International Development and its successor agency or agencies.\nLabor organization means a labor organization as defined by section 7103(a)(4) of title 5, United States Code, unless specified otherwise.","path":["Title 5—Administrative Personnel","CHAPTER I—OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT","SUBCHAPTER B—CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS","PART 550—PAY ADMINISTRATION (GENERAL)","Subpart C—Allotments From Federal Employees"],"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":"ea312994d5d9ae298e1fa6712b78438f6831e67fc6e896f97daa5b0ca79c652a","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/5-cfr-550.206","next":"us/5-cfr-550.311"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}