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B-196790 1 (1980-02-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjrb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IZ7;5 GAO united States General Accounting Office VVashington, DC 20548 ~, Office of General Counsel In Reply -eferto: B-196790 Mr. Conrad R. Hoffman Controller Veterans Administration Washington, D.C. 20420 FE B i Dear Mr. Hoffman: This is in answer to your request (Reference: 047C1:1-3) that relief be granted in the amount of $501.85 on behalf of Ms. Teresa Anderson, Alternate Class-B Cashier at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, ef This loss occurred inthe advance accounto of3L.463ry/ Ms .-ancy M. Stanley, Class-B Cashier. The information submitted indicates that a cashier's check, issued on May 9, 1978, by Wells Fargo Bank and drawn to the order of Thomas Wm. Sullivan III, a patient at Brentwood Hospital, in the amount of $501.85, was presented on September 12, 1978, to Ms. Anderson, the Alternate Class-B Cashier at Brentwood Hospital by a fellow patient named Murdock. The check was deposited to Mr. Sullivan's Personal Funds of Patient account. On September 13, 1978, Mr. Sullivan withdrew all of the money from his account and left the Hospital. The Bank refused to honor the check when presented for payment by the Hospital because, unknown to personnel at the Hospital, Mr. Sullivan had gone to the Bank on May 17, 1978, and stated that he had never received the Bank's cashier check. The Bank then stopped payment on the check and refunded its face value - $501.85 - to Mr. Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan thus cleverly managed to double his bank account by collecting the same funds twice. All efforts to collect the amount due from Mr. Sullivan have been unsuccessful. Although Mr. Sullivan has since been readmitted to the Hospital, he has not opened a Personal Funds of Patient account. According to the Administration, access to such an account is the only way it could collect the amount owed by Mr. Sullivan. You have determined that the shortage in the advance account occurred without fault on the part of Ms. Anderson and that established procedures concerning the acceptance of cashier's checks were followed. Therefore, you request that our office relieve Ms. Anderson of liability for the $501.85 shortage, pursuant to the provisions of 31 U.S.C. § 82a-1 (1976). O0 9 5-79 I ell , Z pl-6,03K o o00(

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