The Federal Debt Collection Procedure Act is a United States federal law passed in 1990, affecting money owed to the United States government.

A provision of the Act states that a person or organization indebted to the United States

United States

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, against whom a judgment lien

Lien

In law, a lien is a form of security interest granted over an item of property to secure the payment of a debt or performance of some other obligation...

 has been filed, is ineligible to receive a government

Government

Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...

 grant. Noncompliance, depending on severity and frequency, may be punished by fine or even incarceration

Incarceration

Incarceration is the detention of a person in prison, typically as punishment for a crime .People are most commonly incarcerated upon suspicion or conviction of committing a crime, and different jurisdictions have differing laws governing the function of incarceration within a larger system of...

.

The Act can be found in the United States Code

United States Code

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 at .

See also

• Debt compliance
  Debt compliance
  In finance, the term debt compliance describes various legal measures taken to ensure that debtors, whether individuals, businesses, or governments, honor their debts and make an honest effort to repay the money that they owe. Generally regarded as a subdivision of tax law, debt compliance is most...
  
  

Federal Debt Collection Procedure Act can be found at 28 U.S.C. 3001-3015. Section 3201 deals only with post-collection judgment liens.