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B-203458 1 (1981-09-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjth0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-203458 DATE: September 29, 1981 MATTER OF: Raymond W. S. Lau , Request for waiver Employee elected to enroll in high option (family plan) health benefits plan in June 1968. Incident to transfer and promotion action in July 1969, and thereafter until November 1978, when employee discovered and reported error, agency erroneously made pay- roll deductions for health benefits coverage at the self-only rate. Request for waiver pursuant to 5 U.S.C. S 5584 for debt resulting from erroneous under-deductions is denied since employee is not free from fault by failing to verify correctness of compensa- tion as indicated on earnings statement furnished to him by employing agency. It is not inequitable to require payment because employee was entitled to health services at the high option level during period of claim. This is an appeal from the settlement of our Claims Group (Z-2826310) which denied Mr. Raymond W. S. Lau's re- quest for waiver of collection of el.et-i-ve health benefits premiums. For the reasons stated below, we conclude that waiver may not be granted. As an employee of the Public Works Center, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Mr. Lau was enrolled in the family plan (high option) health benefits program on June 2, 1968. Prior to that election, his health benefits had been under the self- only coverage. Through administrative error incident to his transfer and promotion to a position in the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, effective July 27, 1969, Mr. Lau's payroll deduction for health benefits was coded at the self-only rate. As a result, from July 27, 1969, until he discovered and re- ported the erroneous under-deduction on November 15, 1978, Mr. Lau was erroneously overpaid in the amount of $1,972.39. Mr. Lau requested waiver of the above overpayments, but this action was denied by our Claims Group on the basis that Mr. Lau should have noticed that his deduction for health benefits coverage decreased after his transfer. DIGEST: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548

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