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B-217816 1 (1985-08-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcaz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNRESTRICTED - cP 0o p THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL gCISICI1N . .OF THE UNITED STATES 4 WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 +_ L IT FILE: MATTER OF DiGEST: <I 217816 DATE: AUGUST 23, 1985 Carolyne Wertz Employee of the Veterans Administration who received overpayment of pay due to promotions she received prior to achieving the 1 year in grade minimum requirement requests waiver of her debt. Since the employee had been a payroll clerk, which required knowledge of various pay entitlement laws and regulations, and had been a Government employee for a number of years, she should reasonably have known she was not en- titled to promotion after 3 months in grade. Denial of waiver is sustained. This action is in response to a request for reconsid- eration of our Claims Group's May 1, 1982 denial of a waiver jof overpayments made to Ms. Carolyne Wertz. Ms. Wertz ,requests waiver of $1,735.20 in overpayments of pay she -received which resulted from two erroneous promotions. The Veterans Administration recommended denial of the waiver since prior to the overpayments Ms. Wertz had occupied a position which required knowledge of various pay entitlement laws and regulations. Our Claims Group denied waiver on this basis. It is our view that the denial of waiver was correct and the overpayments should not be waived. Background Ms. Wertz, an employee of the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles, California, had been promoted to a GS-6 position on March 23, 1975, and, therefore, would have achieved the 1-year minimum time in grade for her next promotion on March 28, 1976. However, she was erroneously promoted to the position of fiscal accounts supervisor, GS-7 (step 4), on June 22, 1975. Effective July 4, 1976, Ms. Wertz was promoted to the GS-9 level, although, because of her erroneous promotion to GS-7, she would not have been eligible for this promotion until April 10, 1977. The error was discovered by the agency, apparently in the course of an investigation of an Equal Employment Oppor- tunity complaint made by another employee. Ms. Wertz was - 6~ 777 B- 836

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