About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-195605(DAS) 1 (1979-11-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacuag0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 T 6 v Off ice of General Counsel In Reply Referto: B-195605(DAS) November 1 , 1979 Mrs. Linda S. Miller 4241 Crestline Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103 Dear Mrs. Miller: We refer to your letter dated July 18, 1979, concerning the collection of a debt incurred by your husband when he was an em- ployee of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). We offer the following comments instead of a formal decision based upon the information contained in your letter. If, after studying this information your husband wishes to file a claim for the amount. in question, he may submit it to the Claims Division, U.S. General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C. 20548. Your letter indicates that during your husband's employment with the FAA, he signed an agreement to continue in the service of the agency following a period of outside training paid for by the FAA. Before completing his required period of service, your husband resigned from the FAA in order to accept private employment. The FAA demanded repayment of the total cost of training and denied your husband's requests for waiver of the payment. Your husband then signed a promissory note agreeing to repay the costs of training on an X installment basis,and FAA's Great Lakes Regional Office informed him that his final salary check, lump-sum payment for leave, and retirement contribution would be paid to him. However, the FAA later ruled that these funds must first be applied to repay the indebtedness, and the agency refused to release the money. You argue that this action was illegal since your husband had already entered into a valid agreement with the FAA. SZz\ h The law provides that an employee selected for training must agree in writing that at the end of the training period he will remain in the service of his agency for a period equal to three times the length of the training period and that he will repay to the Government the cost of training if he is voluntarily separated from the service of this agency before the end of the required period. of service. See 5 U.S.C. § 4108(a) (1976) and Federal Personnel 7 6\~ 75 PU I' /wc ur re 40/ WIL P

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most