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B-196261 1 (1980-06-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacurb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~. ~ GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Office of General Counsel In Reply Refer to: B-196261 June 25, 1980 Mr. Leon Ray Pollick P.O. Box 833 Stanfield, Oregon 97875 21 A Yr- ~LsII . r42~ - Pd-, _ Dear Mr. Poltick: We refer to your letter of May 21, 1980, in which you again request reconsideration of Comptroller General decision B-196261, November 14, 1979. That decision denied your application for a waiver of the Government's claim against you for the recovery of separate rations erroneously paid to you for the periods of October 1, 1975, through March 29, 1976, and April 29, 1976, through June 30, 1976. You state that your debt should be waived since within 4 months of the time you began to receive the erroneous payments in question you were promoted to E-4, received a pay raise for 3 years' service and a Navy-wide pay increase went into effect. In our letter to you of February 20, 1980, and in our decision of November 14, 1979, we recognized that the above events did occur. As we pointed out to you in our previous correspondence even though those events did occur your pay increased significantly more than you could have reasonably expected. Thus, you should have been on notice that you were receiving overpayments. As such, you had an obligation to pursue the matter until you were furnished a full explanation, and you should have been prepared to refund the overpayments. Therefore, as we have previously stated, you were not without fault so as to permit waiver of your debt. You also state that it was not until you received our letter of May 8, 1980, that you were informed you were erroneously paid separate rations at the rate of $2.53 per day for 244 days. In this regard we would like to point out that the basis for the computation of the overpayments was explained in the November 14, 1979 decision.

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