About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-208811 1 (1983-08-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlgo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION .•OF THE UNITED STATUE /WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-208811 DATE: August 2, 1983 MATTER OF: Reuben 0. Bowman et al. - Waiver of Erroneous Payments - Timeliness DIGEST: 1. The Office of Audit and Internal Affairs of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing noticed in October 1978 that 14 employees of the Ink Manufacturing Branch had been overpaid environmental differential pay. Although the over- payments were stopped, inadequate administrative controls resulted in the Office of Financial Management losing track of the matter until an administrative report was filed on August 17, 1982. The record shows that the amount of the overpayment to each employee was not definitely determined prior to the filing of the report. The employees involved were never informed that they had been overpaid. Giving the benefit of the doubt to the employees, we hold that the date an appropriate official definitely discovered that overpay- ments had been made is the date of the administrative report. Accordingly, the Bureau's request for waiver of repayment of the erroneous payments is timely filed. 2. Fourteen employees of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing were erroneously paid hazardous duty pay at the rate of 25 percent when they should have been paid an environmental pay differential of 4 percent. The record shows that the employees had no knowledge that they were incorrectly paid, since Standard Form 50 placing them in their positions did not show the correct rate of environmental differential pay, the employees pay varied because of overtime work, and not all of their work qualified for

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most