The purpose of the maintenance and release transactions by the Comptroller is to minimize the possibility of unlawful offsets or holding of warrants. If an overage payment to a person results from an offset and the original payment was issued in error, the paying agency must recoup the overage payment from the person. Each payment to the person will be made by warrant, and the warrant will be held by the Comptroller. During the period the person is on warrant hold, the person's direct deposit instructions are suspended, not canceled. The custodial state agency must continue to maintain those instructions to prevent erroneous direct deposit payments once the person is released from warrant hold.
Direct deposit is restarted automatically when the person is released from warrant hold.
In this accounting policy statement, the following terms and acronyms have the meanings listed below. For a payee on direct deposit, the agency that sets up direct deposit instructions in TINS for that payee. Hold source agency. An indebtedness to the state. The term includes child support indebtedness but does not include a tax delinquency.