Treasury Offset Program General Information

The Treasury Offset Program (TOP) has recently been contacted by various state agency staff concerning notifications they are receiving from the General Services Administration (GSA) System for Award Management (SAM) regarding debts an agency owes that may be blocking another state agency’s disbursement. 

Fiscal Service’s TOP and Cross-Servicing staff cannot respond to inquiries directly from state employees in agencies that receive a SAM notice, as they have no authorization to do so. In most cases, the state agency debt(s) being inquired about does not belong to the state agency calling, or whose grant is being blocked. 

The Office of the State Controller participates in G2G reporting with TOP, and agencies should contact us directly to resolve and remedy any SAM notification debts/offsets.  Agencies can contact Jonathan James at jonathan.james@osc.nc.gov for assistance with SAM notifications and resolutions.