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B-200460 1 (1984-07-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadluf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION .. OP THE UNITEO STATES WAGHINGTON, 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-200460 DATE: July 10, 1984 MATTER OF: Josie W. Thomas - Proof Required for Compensation Claim DIGEST: An employee separated by the State Depart- ment claims compensation for 80 hours unpaid annual leave, states that she does not recall receiving a salary check made payable to her, and questions whether the endorsement on the copy of that check is hers. The State Department has shown that the employee received annual leave lump- sum payments amounting to 271 hours and the employee has provided no basis to show she is entitled to a further 80 hours. Her claim is denied since the burden of proof is on the claimant to establish her claim. The question of whether the endorsement on the salary check was forged should be referred to the Examiner of Questioned Documents, Department of the Treasury. Ms. Josie W. Thomas has appealed the denial of her claim for payment of 80 hours annual leave and for $514.82 for salary which she alleges was never paid to her. Since Ms. Thomas has not produced evidence sufficient to prove her claim it must be denied. The record shows that Ms. Thomas was separated from the service on December 12, 1980, by the Department of State. Subsequent to her termination, Ms. Thomas claimed that 117 hours of accrued annual leave had not been included in her lump-sum leave pay;-ernt. She stated that 80 hours of her annual leave was improperly forfeited upon her termination. She claimed she was improperly charged for 31 hours of annual leave on May 6, 7, 8 and 9 of 1980. She also requested a further 6 hours of annual leave be restored to her account incident to a recommended decision in a griev- ,,ice she had filed. In its denial of Ms. Thomas' claim, our Claims Group pointed out that no lave was forfeited by Ms. Thomas upon her separation. It appears that Ms. Thomas construed a leave and earnings statement showing 80 hours of annual leave under the Forfeit category as indicating that she

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