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B-133001 1 (1976-07-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcvm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .- coTHE COMPTRO-LER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D. C. 20548 Ulm JUL 2 3 1976 ,FILE: MATTER DIGEST: B-133001 OF: DATE: 9? Payment of VAA Employees Evacuated from Saigon 1. 31 U.S.C.: I 492a and Treasury regulations issued pursuant theteto permit exchange transactions of U.S. and foreign currency or instruments for certain cate- gories of people for accommodation purposes or for official purposes. Employees of Vietnamese-American Association (VAA), a binational organization receiving United States Information Agency grants, received piaster checks from VAA. Employees were evacuated from Vietnam to the United States before checks could be converted to American dollars. GAO agrees that Treasury acted in accordance with regulations in now refusing to convert checks to American dollars. 2. Under grant agreement between United States Information Agency (USIA) and Vietnamese-American Association (VAA), a binational organization operating in Vietnam, United States was to make payments to VAA in four annual installments. VAA employees were evacuated from Vietnam before they could be paid (or in case of 16, before piaster checks issued by VAA could be exchanged for American dollars). USIA may not now pay employees who are in United States directly from its appropriation, except to extent of final unpaid grant install- ment. This decision is in response to a request from the Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) for an opinion regarding that agency's authority to pay from its appropriation final salary, severance pay, and pay in lieu of notice to former employees of the Vietnamcse-American Assodiation (VAA) who were evacuated from Saigon with the United States Mission at the end of April 1975, and now are residing in the United States as refugees. Specifically, the Deputy Director asked the following: ** * whether (a) salary payments originally made to Et ~' sixteen employees id: pifsterspa y-tbe eonverted to U.S. dol- lars by the Treas-ry Dejartra.t, crediting the Agency's PUBLISHED DECISION I

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