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B-140972 1 (1980-08-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjvu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: t- GAO United States General Accounting Office Office of Washington, DC 20548 General Counsel In Reply Refer: B-140972 August 27, 19'80 The Honorable Lindy (Mrs. Hale) Boggs Member, United States House of Representatives 1012 Hale Boggs Federal Building New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Dear Mrs. Boggs: We refer to your letter dated July 16, 1980, with enclosure, on behalf of your constituent, Mrs. Doris B. Chace Adams, 1901 B Faith Place, Gretna, Louisiana 70053. Mrs. Adams expresses continued dissatisfaction concerning our decision B-140972, October 24, 1979, denying her claim for additional amounts of military pay and allowances7 believed due on account of the action taken by the Army Discharge Review Board in 1976 to upgrade the character of her late husband's Army discharge certificate from other than honorable to general. Specifically, in separate undated correspondence that we received from Mrs. Adams on June 26, 1980, she suggested that her husband's military pay and leave records were improperly lost or destroyed by Government agents in the years since he was discharged from the Army in 1951. In addition, she suggested that the loss or destruction of those records was an unacceptable reason for our denial of her claim for amounts of mustering-out pay and an unused accrued leave payment her husband might have received in 1951 if he had been discharged under general rather than other than honorable conditions at that time. Enclosed as requested is a copy of the July 31, 1980 letter of reply to Mrs. Adams explaining the rules relating to the retention of Army records. In her letter to you dated June 23, 1980, Mrs. Adams also mentions the auestion of how the upgrading of her husband's military discharge certificate might affect her Social Security benefits. In that connection, she expresses unhappiness about a letter she received from

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