DEBT COLLECTION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1996: Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service Has Not Yet Fully Implemented Certain Key Provisions

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to expand on the information provided in our December 2001 testimony regarding RHSs progress and to offer our recommendations for improving the agencys implementation of the debt referral provisions of DCIA. As you know, our prior reports have shown that agencies have been slow to implement the referral requirements of DCIA.3 Our testimonies referred to above offered an overview of agencies progress during fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001 to the extent that data were available and addressed your request for information. For this report, we looked at whether (1) RHS was promptly referring eligible single-family housing (SFH) loans to Treasury s FMS for collection action, (2) any obstacles were hampering RHS from referring eligible SFH loans to FMS, and (3) RHS was appropriately using exclusions from referral requirements.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA400532

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