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B-229335 1 (1988-10-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadngf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Wmhligtom, D.C. 20648 Decision Gunnery Sergeant Robert S. Jackowski, USMC - Transportation Debt Waiver - Overweight Household Matterof- Goods Shipment File: B-229335 Date: October 21, 1988 DIGEST The wife of a transferred Marine Corps Sergeant acting on his behalf received erroneous advice from the transportation management office that his maximum weight of household goods allowed to be shipped pursuant to permanent change of station had been increased, and she received written documentation confirming the erroneous advice. Relying on this erroneous authorization, she shipped household effects that were 6,211 pounds in excess of the authorized weight allowance and incurred a debt of $5,002.53. Since the member's debt resulted from the erroneous authorization, the debt is considered to have arisen out of an erroneous payment and is subject to consideration under the waiver statute. The debt otherwise qualifies for waiver and, therefore, is waived. DECISION This decision concerns whether Gunnery Sergeant Robert S. Jackowski's indebtedness of $5,002.53 resulting from his having exceeded his authorized weight allowance for shipment of household effects in connection with a permanent change of station may be waived.l/ As will be explained below, the debt is waived. Sergeant Jackowski was transferred from the Naval Air Station, Glenview, Illinois, to Okinawa, Japan, in March 1986. He departed for Okinawa on March 4, 1986, left his wife in government quarters, and arranged for her to have the Travel Management Office counseling session for the household goods (HHG) shipment. At that session, 1/ The case was originally submitted to our Claims Group by -olonel J. M. Mutter, Commanding Officer of the Marine Corps Finance Center, Kansas City, Missouri.

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