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B-197948 1 (1980-12-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaditp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-197948 O DATE:December 29, 1980 MATTER OF: Chief Warrant Officer William J. Robertson, Jr., USA OIGEST:Army member, pursuant to permanent change of station orders, shipped household goods and unaccompanied baggage in excess of his prescribed administrative weight allowance. Under paragraph M8007-2, 1 JTR, the member is liable for all costs attributable to shipping the excess weight. The fact that the member may have received erroneous advice concerning his transportation entitle- ments does not serve to relieve him of his liability since the Government is not bound by incorrect statements of its agents and employees. Chief Warrant Officer William J. Robertson, Jr., United States Army, requests reconsideration of our Claims Division's denial of his claim for reimburse- ment of the money collected from him for excess costs incurred in the shipment of his household goods and unaccompanied baggage incident to a permanent change of station from Mannheim, Germany, to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. For the following reasons the dis- allowance of Mr. Robertson's claim is sustained. On June 20, 1976, Mr. Robertson's unit, located in Mannheim, Germany, was deactivated. As a result, he received permanent change of station orders dated July 22, 1976, directing him to move to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. These orders authorized Mr. Robertson to ship his household goods and baggage at Government expense to his new duty station. Upon presenting his household effects for shipment Mr. Robertson was informed by the trans- portation movement officer (TMO) that he had exceeded his weight allowances and that his goods would not be sent until he teceived approval to ship excess goods. Mr. Robertson was told to submit an Exception to Policy letter to the transpor- tation officer. In this letter Mr. Robertson

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