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B-185458 1 (1976-10-05)

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 FILE:  8-185458                      DATE:   OctotCr %

MATTER OF:       Kenneth J. Moore  - request for waiver of erron'eous
                 payment of post  differential and separat  mainte-
                 riance allowance
                 1.  Acceptance of  payment of post differential
                     and separat2 maintenance  allowance, afttr
                     notificatio.  of ineligibility therefor, pre-
                     cludes waiver  of indebtedness under provisions
                     of 5 U.S.C. 0  5584 (Supp. IV, 19T).

                 2.  Erroneous indcations   in Standard Forms 50
                     and 1190,  to the effect that employee would
                     be entitled  to post differential and separate
                     maintenance  allowance payments, does not
                     create authority  to pay sich allowances where
                     #mployee did not, meet requirement of itatutory
                     regulations  that he be recruited i    .ited
                     States or other  design3ted areas.

                 3.  United States  is not liaDle fo (rooou
                     actions of  its offices,  agents, or
                     employees even  though cornitted n  per-
                     formance of official  duties.  Ore zntriin;
                     into azrrangement with Government tak&s risk
                     of her'ing ascertained that agent with whom
                     lie dearn stays within limis  of hi5 authority,
                     inatntmuc1 as Government can cithcr be hound
                     nor estopped  by unauthorized acts of its
                     agents.  Federal Crop  Insurance CoT  v.
                     Merill,  332 U.S.  380 (1947); 44 Ccmp. Gen.
                     33   139  (1964).

      This action is in response  to the reque't of Mr. Kenneth J.
Moore,  a former employee of the United  States Army Ctntral Finance
and  Accounting Office (USACF&AO),-Vietnan,  for reconsiderztioi of
the  settlement of our Transporttilon  and Claims Division (tCl), noW
Claims  Division, on February 21,  1974, which denied irn part a -Cequest
flr  waivcr of erroneous payment  of foreign post differential and
separate  maintenance allowance made  to F. Moore  during the period
from  December 20, 1971, through  August 5, 1972.


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