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B-186291 1 (1976-06-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddcg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTRL.,-LER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASH ING.TON, o C. 2o54 1% rro, DATE: JUN 3 01976q FILE: B-186291 MATTER OF: DIGEST: Nguyen Thi Chung and Chau Thi Nguyen - Claims for proceeds of checks issued to relatives who were not successfully evacuated from Vietnam. Incident to evacuation of U.S. personnel and local national employees from Vietnam, employees turning in Vietnamese piasters were given receipts on the bases of which Treasury checks were subsequently issued. Checks for payees still in Vietnam were placed in special deposit account pursuant to 31 U.S.C. H§ 123-128 for benefit of payees and may not be paid out to relatives in U.S. who claim power of attorney to receive proceeds. Two claims, involving similar facts and legal issues, have been submitted by the Chief Disbursing Officer, Bureau of Government Financial Operations, Fiscal Service, Department of the Treasury, pursuant to 4 GAO § 5.1 (September 1, 1967) due to doubt as to the claimants' entitlement to funds currently deposited to Treasury receipt account No. 20F3875. The.question presented in each claim is whether the proceeds of a United States Treasury check issued to a payee in Vietnam may be paid to a claimant in the United States, purportedly acting for the payee or based on a right derived from the payee. The record shows that in anticipation of the evacuation of United States personnel and local national employees from Vietnam, the United States Disbursing Officer in Saigon was authorized to accept Vietnamese piasters from local national employees in exchange for either United States currency or Treasury checks. In some cases, due to lack of time, the disbursing officer issued receipts on Standard Form 1165, Receipt For Cash-Subvoucher, for the piasters turned in. It was apparently intended that Treasury checks would be issued, based on the receipts, subsequent to evacuation. The submission in claim No. Z-2618527 reveals that check No. 613,154 was issued to Nguyen Thi Kim Lan on the basis of one of these Standard Form 1165 receipts, dated April 28, 1975. Nguyen Thi Kim Lan remained in Vietnam. By letter dated April 29, 1975, Nguyen Thi Chung, the payee's cousin, was authorized by the payee to get my Receipt for Cash-Subvoucher in amount of $2,000 to be issued subsequently. The check was not forwarded to the payee in Vietnam but was deposited to Treasury receipt account No. 20F3875, pursuant to provisions.of sections 123 to 128, title 31, United States Code (1970). Nguyen Thi Chung contends that she is entitled to the proceeds of check No. 613,154 on the basis of the April 29, 1975, authorization from the payee. - S3-PUBLISHED) DECISION 55 comp. G-len....

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