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DECISION
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Douglas Youlkner
. n Civ. Pers.
VME COMPTROLLER GIENERAL
. n.4 .a THE UNITED UTATRS
VrAfI- N TON .0 20549
DATE:
MATTER OF: Daniel Got - Waiver - sousing Allowance
LAcally hired Liberian employee was
provided with a residcnce when he was
appointed Associate Poace Corps Director
for Liberia. There was no authority for
payment of such an allowance from appro-
priated funds, but it wan permissible for
host country to pay for home directly.
Instead payments were made by Peace
Corps from host country contributions.
GAO finds no fault on the part of the em-
ployee and waiver of erroneous paymentb
i hereby granted.
We have been asked, by letter of March 25, 1970. from the
Gene41 Counsel of ACTION, an independent agency of the executive
branch to waive erroneous payments, in the form of a housing allow-
ance, made to Mr. Daniel Goe, a locally hired Liberian employee
of the Peace Corpe In Liberia.
Prior to November 1971, iv', Ge was a Foreign Service Local
(FSL) employee of the Pe'ace C4Ppip i Obarnga. Liberia. Effcztive
November 15, 1971, Mr. Goo was appointed to the position of
Acielate Peace Corps Director, with a duty station at Monrovia,
Liberia. Tha distance between his old duty station and Monrovia
prevented hir. Goe from continukig to reside in the hone he owned
in Gbarnga and commutiny. The Peace Corps Director in Liberia
felt that 4r. Goe should be provided with housing in Monrovia
because ihe transfer had been made at the Peace Corps' request.
The personnel officer at the American Embassy in Monrovia
advisod the Peace Corps that there was:
* * * no legal authority available to Peace Corps
for pirviding quaifters for Foreign Service Local
employees. 5poefically, she noted that 3 FAA 000
and the Interagency Local Employees Handbook
prohibited Peace Corps from 'providing housing
or granting a local employee a quarters allowance.
Apaistance and advice was riquented from ACTION In Washington.
By letter of October 28, 1071, from the Office of General Counsel
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