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B-213598 1 (1984-03-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlpm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER UENERAL DECISION OP THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. O.C. 20548 FILE: B-213598 DATE: March 28, 1984 MATTER OF: Peace Corps - Volunteer Payments DIGEBT: GAO does not object to proposed system of pay- ing Peace Corps volunteers at overseas posts using in-country postal facilities and money orders. The Associate Director for Management of the Peace Corps has requested our approval of a system to pay Peace Corps vol- unteers at overseas posts using in-country postal facilities and money orders. We have no objection to the proposed system, and accordingly approve its implementation. According to the submission, two systems are currently used to pay allowances to Peace Corps volunteers. In countries in which banking or other financial institutions with branches in remote locations are capable of processing composite checks, a check, accompanied by a list of volunteers, account numbers, and amounts to be deposited, is made payable to the bank. If a volunteer terminates between the time a check is requested and the time the composite check is received, the Country Director notifies the institution of the change and requests an adjust- ment of the amount paid and a refund of the amount overpaid. Where in-country banking or financial institutions are not available or able to process a composite check or do not have branches in remote locations, checks are made payable to the individual volunteers, who cash them in local stores. If a volunteer terminates between the time a check is requested and the time it is received from the State Department Finance Center, the check is returned to the disbursing officer for cancellation. The new system is intended to overcome the difficulties encountered by Country Directors at posts where adequate bank- ing or other financial institutions are unavailable or incapa- ble of implementing the composite check system and where local stores will not cash U.S. Treasury checks for volunteers. The Peace Corps has concluded that the only way to get funds to volunteers in these countries is by postal money order through the in-country postal facilities. The Peace Corps accordingly proposes to institute a system similar to the first alternative described above using in- country postal facilities. A composite check, accompanied by a list of volunteers, amounts to be paid, and locations, would be 4 1 'It4. >

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