5 U.S.C. § 5525
Section 5525 · Allotment and assignment of pay
This is the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Knight v. United States (1993)
Most recently applied in Knight v. United States (January 1993)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The head of each agency may establish procedures under which each employee of the agency is permitted to make allotments and assignments of amounts out of his pay for such purpose as the head of the agency considers appropriate. For purposes of this section, the term “agency” includes the Office of the Architect of the Capitol.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Statutes at Large 5 U.S.C. 3075. Sept. 26, 1961, Pub. L. 87–304, §5, 75 Stat. 663. Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.
Amendments
2001—Pub. L. 107–68 inserted at end “For purposes of this section, the term ‘agency’ includes the Office of the Architect of the Capitol.”
Effective Date of 2001 Amendment
Pub. L. 107–68, title I, §133(b)(2), Nov. 12, 2001, 115 Stat. 582, provided that: “The amendment made by paragraph (1) [amending this section] shall apply with respect to pay periods beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 12, 2001].”