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B-189181 1 (1978-06-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgdb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: r'i SI DECISION FILE: B-18918 -Nod THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE JNITE UTATE :. 42 W HASHINGTON, 0.C 20548 1 DATE: June 20, 1978 MATTER OF: James M. Bedore - Interest DIGEST: Claim by former employee of Agency for International Development (AID) that interest be paid on award of overtime compensation found due for period employed by AID in VieLnam is denied. Payment of interest by Goven'menr i permitted only if expressly provided for by contract or statute. This decision is in response to a request by Mr. lames M. Bedore for reconsideration of his claim for interest in connection with the payment of $3,154.89 by our Claims Division in its settlement actions of November 23, 1977, and February 7, 1978. The aforestated sum was payment for 349 hours of overtime work performed by Mr. Bedore while assigned to Country Operations Rural Development Support in Vietnam as an employee of the Agency for International Development, Department ot State, during the period January 22, 1972, through March 17, 1973. In the settlement action of February 7, 1978, it was stated that no interest is payable on such claims. The claimant specifically contends that the Government is liable for the payment of interest on the sum paid due to the long delay in processing and settling the claim. It is the well-established rule that interest on claims against the United States, even where payment %as been unreasonably delayed, does not follow automatically upon the allowance of the claLu. Interest can be recovered against the United States only if expressly provided forbycatract or when allowance of interest is specifically directed by statute. United States v. James, 301F. Supp. 107 (1969); United States v. Mescelero Anache Tribe, 207 Ct. Cl. 369 (1975). Also, 53 Comp. Gen. 824 (1974); id. 264 (1973). We find no contractual or statutory provision that authoriaes an award of interest with respect to this claim. See 28 U.S.C. 56 2411, 7516, 2674; 31 U.S.C. I 724a. The claim for interest must there- fore be denied. In light of the denial of payment of interest on the award of overtime compensation and the request of the employee for information concerning the manner in which this decision may be appealed, we I A. I I I *i I ,I -\ I

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