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fReview of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Procedures and Practices for Recovering Salary Overpayments].
B-164031. January 5, 1977. 11 pp.
Report to Secretary, Department of Health, Fduction, and
Welfare; by D. L. Scantlebury, Director, Financial and General
ManagemeLt Studies Div.
Issue Area: Personnel Management and Compensation: Compensation
(305).
Contact: Financial and General ManagemePc Studies Div.
Budget Function: General Government: Central Personnel
Management (805).
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Ed1rcation and Labor;
Senate Committee on Labo- and Public Welfare.
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5514. 2 GiO 7-12.
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's (HEW)
procedures and practices for recovering salary overpaysents were
reviewed through examination of overpayment case files Lnd
related pay data records and through interviews with payroll
personnel. Findings/Conclusions: HEW has not acted promptly to
collect hundreds of salary overpayments. As of March, 1976,
HEW'. files showed that overpayments of $157,176 ware no-. eing
collected from 53' active and former employees. These
o-3rpayments wey r outstanding for periods ranging frow 7 weeks
to 8 vcars. At the same time, Central Payroll had not made
payroll deductions froa the 263 employees who had not responded
to overpayment notices within 30 days. Central Payroll has also
not followed procedures for ccllecting overpayeents from former
employees. HEW has discontinued attempts to collect overpay-,ents
of $14,316 to 50 persons that have been outstanding for 3 to 8
years. Recommendations: The Secretary of HEW shculd i.nitiate
payroll deductions to recover overpaymerts from employees not
responding to notices within 30 days; request the Civil Service
Commission to offset ovrpayments of former employees against
retirement refunds and annuities; provide accounting controls
for payroll overpayments; and improve processing of pay
adjustments to reccver overpayments accuratell. (RRS)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaagsy0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)