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B-189411 1 (1978-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachmi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE! ! -> WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 oFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL B-189411 DEC 78 The Honorable Herman E. Talmadge United States Senate Dear Senator Talmadge: This is in response to your letter to the Director of our Office of Congressional Relations concerning correspondence from the Reverend of Martinez, Georgia, about which you request our report. Reverend I requests assistance in recovering compensation which he believes is due him for emotional and financial hardship which he says resulted when the General Accounting Office (GAO) attempted to collect a debt from him which he did not in fact owe. He claims that the GAO wrongfully collected from him about $2,000 before finally acknowledging that the debt was not his. He further protests a ruling against him by Judge Anthony Alaimo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Augusta Division. Reverend alleges that although he had suffered hardship, he has not received any compensation, that he has not seen a copy of the Judge's written opinion against him, and that he has been denied his right to a trial by jury. Under the provisions of 31 U.S.C. § 71 (1976) and the Federal Claims Collection Act of 1966, 31 U.S.C. §§ 951-953 (1976), debts of Government agencies which they are unable to collect, may be referred to the GAO for collection action. 'On March 4, 1971, the Marine Corps referred for collection by GAO its claim against one (not Reverend but another veteran, apparently with the same name), representing allotment overpayments in the amount of $731.69. After failing in attempts to locate this debtor, the GAO Claims Division closed its file on this debt in November 1972. A year later, November 1973, the Veterans Administration (VA) referred to GAO a claim it had against the same for default on a VA-guaranteed housing loan in the amount of $1,112.38. On the referral form, VA mistakenly showed the address of the Reverend as the address of its debtor, and not the address of the who had in fact defaulted on the loan. , .. ;;. + ' ;7,. ;:.- '. . ..'= : .. .. .. .= .

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