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B-179786 1 (1973-10-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadds0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .- 0 UW CMPTVtOLtL GENItAJ. OF THE UNrITEDrVrATLS WA*IIIPIq4 -TOc+,Dn.C. tw4 '- 79786.Otobr 18, 1973 . r, Arthur G, Dukusld, Director Boston Data Collection Center Bureu of the Census Tidt.d Statee Department of COnrce Boston, Maanachuaetta 02116 Near Wr. Dukkis: In ybur Aetter of September 20, 1973, you encl m a copy of a '1Utter fromw Nt, Edward J9 Muraske w wo claims intereat at 5 percmnt for the period from Hay 20, 1910i to the present Incident to aiclnim on ap.id wages./ You state Hr. turaska worked as :mi Ewamrator on tht 1970 COus but due to a disagreement on the amount of pay due he did not ai:cept the payment for his Derviceo at that ttua. You state there is tcn due him 0369.53 which he ham claimed together vtth interest, You request a decision as to vhether such interest on the claim is juotified. The voucher presented for certification should have been submitted width your request for decision. See 26 Camp. Gen. 797, ?99 (1947) and 21 id. 1128 (3142) cited therein. In ordev to save time and since you evidently have a voutther before you, we cane dvise th. fotling with respect to payent of interest, r' It t veil uettled that the payment of interest by th Covernmnt on Its unpaid w.counte or claims may not be wade except Whhn interest is provided for in leBd and jproper contracts or when allwsance of interet in spet,:fically directed by etatuto,. See Anqaric'av4 r I 17 U.S. 251; _i-m tedStAtes v. North AmnerJ4h.ransportatioil and Trading Co., 253 U.S. 330; Seaboard Air .ine Co, v. United.States, 261 U.S. 299; _ v. United-States, 302 U.S. 329; United Staten v. HotelCo., 329 U.U. 585. At page 260 of the Angarica case, the United States Suprcme Court held that: 9 0 A. * the United States ar nmot liable to pay iutexest on claims against them, Ioa the absence of express statutory provision to that effect, It has been establishd, as a general rulk, in the prattic& *f the govtcrnment, that interest is not allowed on claim againnt it, whether such claims originated in * h , L .iram . m- - ..9/5

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