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B-229446 1 (1988-04-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnbi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof. Patricia A. Santoro - Waiver of Overpayment - Erroneous Step Increase File: B-229446 Date: April 7, 1988 DIGEST Employee was erroneously granted a quality step increase to step 6 from step 4, resulting in salary overpayments. Request for waiver under 5 U.S.C. S 5584 (1982) is denied since employee is not without fault in failing to question the increase. Employee's current financial situation should be considered in arranging a reasonable repayment schedule for the amount due, to the extent consistent with 4 C.F.R. S 102.11 (1987). DECISION This decision is in response to an appeal of our Claims Group's denial of a waiver of erroneous payments of salary to Patricia A. Santoro, an employee of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Because of an administrative error, Ms. Santoro was erroneously granted a within-grade step increase and was overpaid $1,014.84. For the reasons set forth below, the denial of waiver by our Claims Group is affirmed. BACKGROUND According to the record, on October 11, 1981, Ms. Santoro received a within-grade increase from GS-6, step 3, to step 4. On July 3, 1983, she received a Quality Step Increase. Due to an administrative error, however, she was placed in step 6 of GS-6 instead of step 5. Consequently, when she received her next within-grade increase on October 9, 1983, Ms. Santoro was erroneously placed in step 7 of GS-6 rather than step 6. These administrative errors caused Ms. Santoro to be overpaid $1,014.84 from July 3, 1983, through October 5, 1985. On October 10, 1985, the error was discovered and corrected personnel actions were issued. Ms. Santoro noticed a QA-4k 4

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