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B-219734 1 (1986-04-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmhd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECIBION . OP THE UNITEO STATED WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20549 FILE: B-219734 DATE: April 16, 1986 MATTER OF: Gayla Chappel Reiter DIGEST: 1. An employee of Social Security Adminis- tration claims the cost of air travel which arose from the use of an indirect route from Baltimore, Maryland, to San Francisco, California. The higher costs due to the indirect route must be borne by the traveler even though they may have been erroneously included in the cost of a direct route quotation by the Govern- ment's contracted travel service. 2. The Social Security Administration's debt collection procedures did not require hearing for the collection of an out- standing travel advance. The Debt Collec- tion Act of 1982 and implementing Federal Claims Collection Standards do not require a hearing when collection is under the general provisions of 31 U.S.C. § 3716 and the travel advance recoupment provisions of 5 U.S.C. § 5705, even though a hearing would be required for collection of other debts under 5 U.S.C. § 5514. The Social Security Administration has requested an advance decision whether the higher cost for official travel from Baltimore, Maryland, to San Francisco, California, by way of Portland, Oregon, was properly denied to Gayla Chappel Reiter, an employee of the Administration, and whether the Administration's procedures used to collect an outstanding travel advance in a similar amount from the employee were proper under the Debt Collection Act of 1982. The Government may pay only for cost of travel by a usually traveled route. Additional costs of $149 due to indirect routing must be borne by the traveler even though the Government's contracted travel service erroneously advised the employee that the indirect route would cost only $1 more than direct travel. The Administration's procedures for collecting the outstanding travel advance in an amount equal to the a03$5 1_

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