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B-211932 1 (1983-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadljl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION. FILE: B-211932 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548 DATE: October 20, 1983 MATTER OF: Willie Baca DIGEST: An employee elected optional life insurance coverage but, after making proper deductions for over 9 years, the agency, through admin- istrative error, began deducting less than was required. The employee was charged for the difference between what was collected and the correct amount. He has requested waiver of the erroneous overpayment of pay under 5 U.S.C. § 5584. Waiver is denied since he continued to be covered by optional insurance throughout the period and since he is not free from fault since he failed to examine Leave and Earnings Statements pro- vided by the agency which would have alerted him to the error. Mr. Willie Baca requests reconsideration of our Claims Group's denial of his application for waiver of the erroneous payments of pay in the amount of $728. The overpayments resulted from insufficient payroll deductions for optional Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance. Since the employee was covered by optional insurance during the period and since he should have known an error in deductions had been made because he was furnished Leave and Earnings Statements showing the erroneous deductions the denial is sustained. Mr. Baca, an employee of the United States Navy executed Standard Form 176-T electing optional (in addition to regular) Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance coverage on February 12, 1968. The payroll deduction for this insurance prior to September 25, 1977, was $20.80. For the pay period ending October 8, 1977, his deduction for life insurance was reduced to $11.10 because the agency erroneously reduced the charge for optional insurance. Underdeductions for optional insurance continued through May 30, 1981. Total deduc- tions for optional insurance for the years 1977 through 1981 were only $73 when they should have been $801, leaving Mr. Baca with an overpayment of $728. Appar- ently, these errors occurred because Mr. Baca's service OLqbs-

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