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B-226620 1 (1987-06-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmsm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: a # The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Marlene A. Busick - Waiver of Overpayments for Health Insurance File: B-226620 Date: June 8, 1987 DIGEST An employee who transferred from a full-time to a part-time position received overpayments of salary for approximately 6-1/2 years because the agency failed to increase her deduc- tions for health insurance upon her conversion to part-time status. Waiver of the overpayments is granted because there is no evidence that the employee was aware that her conversion to part-time status required an increase in her insurance deductions. Furthermore, although the agency deducted insurance premiums at the proper rate for an interval of 10 pay periods, the temporary change in deductions was not accompanied by any notification to the employee and she reasonably may not have noticed the slight difference in her pay. DECISION Marlene A. Busick, an employee of the United States Department of Agriculture, appeals our Claims Group's settlement which partially denied her request for waiver of salary overpay- ments. These overpayments resulted from Agriculture's failure to deduct the appropriate amount of health insurance premiums from Ms. Busick's salary following her conversion from full- time to part-time employment. For the reasons that follow, we hold that the entire amount of Ms. Busick's indebtedness may be waived. FACTS Ms. Busick had been employed for approximately 1-1/2 years in a full-time position with the Department of the Interior when, on June 17, 1979, she transferred to the part-time position of Authorization Clerk, grade GS-4, in Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. At that time Agriculture should have, but did not, increase Ms. Busick's premiums for the health insurance plan in which she had enrolled effective

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