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B-206699.1,B-206699.2 1 (1988-09-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnff0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States $Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof: Debts Arising from Overpayments of Compensation - Standards for Termination of Collection Action File: B-206699.1, B-206699.2 Date: September 15, 1988 DIGEST Several thousand military Reserve technicians received overpayments of compensation between December 1981 and December 1982 as the result of an error in the applica- tion of a statute limiting their combined military and civilian compensation to the rate payable for level V of the Executive Schedule. It is also reported that several thousand Army members have been overpaid because of minor errors made in fixing the constructive date to be used in determining their length of federal service. No collection action is necessary since the individual overpayments are small, the administrative costs of attempted collection would be excessive, and all overpayments would be eligible for waiver on an individual case basis. DECISION The Departments of the Army and the Air Force have requested our concurrence in their proposals to forego action to col- lect certain overpayments of compensation made to several thousand persons as the result of administrative error.l/ In the particular circumstances presented, we concur. BACKGROUND In 65 Comp. Gen. 78 (1985) we held that, under a statutory provision which was in effect between December 29, 1981, and December 17, 1982, the combined military and civilian compensation of military Reserve technicians should have been limited to the rate payable for level V of the l/ This action is in response to two separate requests for decisions received from the Army Finance and Accounting Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, and the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center, Denver, Colorado. // Tt

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