Treasury Offset Program
This dataset shows how Treasury offsets federal payments, such as tax refunds, to pay off delinquent debts such as unpaid child support.
About This Dataset
Description:
This dataset is a summary of five different programs in which states, the District of Columbia (D.C.), and U.S. territories can apply offsets from federal payments towards delinquent debt. These programs are income tax, state reciprocal tax agreements, unemployment insurance, child support, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
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Notes & Known Limitations
This dataset tracks Treasury Offset Program (TOP) collections and participation. With state programs, states and territories can participate in state income tax referrals (41 states and D.C. have state income tax), state reciprocal program, state unemployment insurance (UI) debts (tax withholding and UI overpayment), SNAP debts (with federal component) and child support collections (with federal component). Not all states participate in all programs. This is not tracked for the federal non-tax creditor agencies.
States participating in the State Reciprocal Program have their debts offset against federal payments for state income tax and unemployment insurance compensation debts. The Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service manages the federal aspects of the SNAP program and refers debts to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for TOP. For the purposes of the TOP, SNAP debts are considered federal debts even though they are administered by states and territories.
TOP collections data for FY 2020 and FY 2021 is currently unavailable through this site due to system upgrades, but can be obtained from the Fiscal Service site at the agency level.
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API Quick Guide
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- Parameter:
fields= - Definition: The fields parameter allows you to select which field(s) should be included in the response.
- Accepts: The
fields=parameter accepts a comma-separated list of field names (no parentheses). - Required: No, specifying fields is not required to make an API request.
- Default: If desired fields are not specified, all fields will be returned.
- Notes: When a field named passed to the
fields=parameter is not available for the endpoint accessed, an error will occur. Note that omitting fields can result in automatically aggregated and summed data results. For more information, view the full documentation on Aggregation and Sums.
?fields=- Parameter:
filter= - Definition: Filters are used to view a subset of the data based on specific criteria. For example, you may want to find data that falls within a certain date range, or only show records which contain a value larger than a certain threshold.
- Accepts: The filter parameter
filter=accepts filters from the list below, as well as specified filter criteria. Use a colon at the end of a filter parameter to pass a value or list of values. For lists passed as filter criteria, use a comma-separated list within parentheses. Filter for specific dates using the formatYYYY-MM-DD. - Required: No, filters are not required to make an API request.
- Default: When no filters are provided, the default response will return all fields and all data.
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?filter=undefined:eq:undefinedhttps://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/undefined?filter=undefined:eq:undefined- Parameter:
sort= - Definition: The sort parameter allows a user to sort a field in ascending (least to greatest) or descending (greatest to least) order.
- Accepts: The sort parameter
sort=accepts a comma-separated list of field names. - Required: No, sorting is not required to make an API request.
- Default: When no sort parameter is specified, the default is to sort by the first column listed. Most API endpoints are thus sorted by date in ascending order (historical to most current).
- Notes: You can nest sorting by passing the
sort=parameter a comma-separated list.
?sort=-undefinedhttps://api.fiscaldata.treasury.gov/services/api/fiscal_service/undefined?sort=-undefined- Parameter:
format= - Definition: The format parameter allows a user to define the output method of the response (CSV, JSON, XML).
- Accepts: The
format=parameter acceptsxml,json, orcsvas an input. - Required: No, the format parameter is not required to make an API request.
- Default: When no format is specified, the default response format is JSON.
?format=csv- Parameter:
page[size]=andpage[number]= - Definition: The page size will set the number of rows that are returned on a request, and page number will set the index for the pagination, starting at 1. This allows the user to paginate through the records returned from an API request.
- Accepts: The
page[number]=andpage[size]=parameters both accept integers. - Required: No, neither pagination parameters are required to make an API request.
- Default: When no page number or page size parameter is specified, the default response is
- Page number: 1
- Page size: 100
- Specifying the endpoint
- Requesting the JSON response format
- Sorting the data by
in descending order - Setting pagination parameters
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- Aggregation and sums
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- Response codes
- Meta object
- ...and more!
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