PUBLIC LAW 107-314—DEC. 2, 2002 116 STAT. 2635 "(3) The amount of pay deducted and withheld from the pay owed to an employee or member with respect to a pay period under paragraph (1) may not exceed 15 percent of the disposable pay of the employee or member for that pay period, except that a higher amount may be deducted and withheld with the written consent of the employee or member. "(4) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe procedures for deducting and withholding amounts from pay under this subsection. The procedures shall be substantially equivalent to the procedures under section 3716 of title 31. "(c) OFFSETS OF RETIRED PAY. — In the case of a former employee of the Department of Defense or a retired member of the armed forces who is receiving retired pay and who owes an amount to a creditor by reason of one or more charges on a Defense travel card that were made before the retirement of the employee or member, the Secretary may require amounts to be deducted and withheld from any retired pay of the former employee or retired member in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as the Secretary deducts and withholds amounts from basic pay payable to an employee or member under subsection (b). "(d) DEFINITIONS. —In this section: "(1) The term 'Defense travel card' means a charge or credit card that— "(A) is issued to an employee of the Department of Defense or a member of the armed forces under a contract entered into by the Department of Defense with the issuer of the card; and "(B) is to be used for charging expenses incurred by the employee or member in connection with official travel. "(2) The term 'disposable pay', with respect to a pay period, means the amount equal to the excess of the amount of basic pay or retired pay, as the case may be, payable for the pay . period over the total of the amounts deducted and withheld from such pay. "(3) The term 'retired pay' means— "(A) in the case of a former employee of the Department of Defense, any retirement benefit payable to that individual, out of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, based (in whole or in part) on service performed by such individual as a civilian employee of the Department of Defense; and "(B) in the case of a retired member of the armed forces or member of the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, retired or retainer pay to which the member is entitled. "(e) EXCLUSION OF COAST GUARD.— T h is section does not apply to the Coast Guard.". (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.— The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 165 of such title is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2784 the following new item: "2784a. Management of travel cards.". SEC. 1009. CLEARANCE OF CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS RECORDED IN TREASURY SUSPENSE ACCOUNTS AND RESOLUTION OF CERTAIN CHECK ISSUANCE DISCREPANCIES. (a) CLEARANCE OF CERTAIN SUSPENSE ACCOUNTS.— (1) In the case of any transaction that was entered into by or on behalf
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