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TINS Warrant Hold

Lesson 6: The Warrant Offset Process

Offset Hierarchy

It is possible for a payee to have multiple state debts at the same time. When offsetting held warrants for payees with multiple holds, the Comptroller’s office follows an established hierarchy to determine which hold source agency receives funds first:

First Office of the Attorney General for child support delinquencies
Second Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts for tax delinquencies
Third All other holds based on the hold date or when the hold date was reported to TINS. If there are multiple holds with the same hold dates, the hold with the oldest effective date receives priority.*

*The example below shows two hold source agencies with the same hold date. In this case, the funds go to the Texas Commission on Audits because the effective date of its hold is earlier than the effective date of the hold placed by the State Stores Commission.

Example: PYHOLD screen showing two hold source agencies with same hold date

PYHOLD.7XXXXXXXXX6.                                                           MM/DD/YY 
                                  PAYEE HOLD INFORMATION                          
                                                                                
 S   HOLD NUMBER      HOLD DATE    EFF DATE   SRC    RSN   LIABILITY AMOUNT    REV DATE  
 -    ----------       --------    --------   ---    ---   ------------        ------  
 _   7XXXXXXXXX6       01/15/14    08/21/13   100    300       10.00  
 SALARY OVERPAYMENT - STATE STORES COMMISSION                
 NAME:  PAULA PAYEE                      TIN: 7XXXXXXXXX6    
        
_   7XXXXXXXXX6        01/15/14    02/01/13   120    450       100.00  
 DELINQUENT REPAYMENT OF TRAVEL EXPENSES - TX COMMISSION ON AUDITS     
 NAME:  PAULA PAYEE                      TIN: 7XXXXXXXXX6    
    
    
    
 S = 1   PAYEE HOLD ADDR/PHONE INFO      
 END OF DISPLAY   - PF3 = QUIT,     PF4=MENU

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