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B-178576 1 (1973-10-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzdi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: W,. *~* * COMPTTOLLER GENEIRAL OF THZ UNITWD STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. zQat 41478576 ( 7t7 October 4. 1973 Mm. Juanita Nadford 1630 A Sherman Street Alameda, California 94501 Dcar Xa. Hdfordt Further reference is made to your letter dated arch 29, 1973, concerning your~claim for the'one-half ahare-o.t the arrears of pay and combat payjreservd for the father of your lato non, Privato First Clas Roert D. ZHedford, USMG, Serial No. 1173442, who died Sept=- bar 15, 1951, the other one-half share, reprooenting $1U7.74 arrears of pay and $11.25 cobat pay having been allowed you by oettlenants of our Transportation and Claims Diviolon dated Decenber 28, 1951 and July 20, 1953, respectively. The record ohowse that your elait for the one-half shtire recerved for Mr. Medford was the oubjoct of a latter from our Trannportation and Claims Division dated March 22, 1973, in which you were advisued that undor the provisions of the act of October 9, 1940, 54 Stat. 1061, 31 U.S.C. 71a, which requires that any claim not recaived in the General Accnunting Offi c within ten fuU yeAre after the date thq claim first accrued, your claim for that reserved shore nuat be dioallowed since no claim by a proper clamant va filed with this Office within ten full years from the date of accrual. You say that if we check cur files on JLne 22, 1953, we will find that you did file a clain, but that o'ii-half of the claired amount was being ho.ld for your scn'n father. You nay also that you had neither seen nor hoard from your late soi5s father in fifteen years, but now that he is dead you are refiling your clatu for his one-half ahpro nf your con's estate and feed that you should be paid, with intoreat. The record show that you receivod $168.99, representing your oie-half share of the amount due your late son at his death, and that the other half was roaerved for the decadent's natural father pending receipt of a claim from him by this Office, but that no such'elain was aver received. Tho record also shows that a cartifiod copy of a Certificate of Death fronm the Department of Iealth of the State of Arizona issued on February 17, 1969, shows th, data of death of & Cecil Hfdford, father of Robert D. Hedford, to be June 23, 1968.

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