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B-234135 1 (1989-04-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnkx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: VL/- Z > r The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof: Lieutenant Colonel Arthur L. Rastetter, III, USAF File: B-234135 Date: April 21, 1989 DIGEST 10 U.S.C. § 2774 authorizes waiver of a claim against a service member arising out of an erroneous payment of travel and transportation allowances. The Joint Federal Travel Regulations provide for the shipment of a member's household goods (HHG) at government expense upon a permanent change of duty station, not in excess of the member's maximum authorized HHG weight allowance. An Air Force officer's request for waiver of collection of an indebted- ness arising from excess weight charges for shipment of HHG, incurred because of a delay in the issuance of his orders and his alleged resulting inability to dispose of the HHG which caused the excess, cannot be considered under the waiver statute since no erroneous payment by the govern- ment was involved. DECISION Lieutenant Colonel Arthur L. Rastetter, III, USAF, requests reconsideration of the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center's denial of his application for a waiver of a $1,138.07 debt which resulted from the shipment of household goods (HHG) in excess of the authorized weight allowance. We conclude that the application for waiver was properly denied. BACKGROUND In 1985 Colonel Rastetter was assigned to Comiso Air Station, Italy, for a period not to exceed 1 year, with a tentative reassignment scheduled in June 1986 to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), Ohio, near Dayton, where his family lived during his overseas tour. On April 9, 1986, Colonel Rastetter was informed of a change of assignment to Norton AFB, California, with a report-not- later-than-date (RNLTD) of July 10 to California. He arrived in Dayton, Ohio, on June 14. Movers packed and C/5-v 353

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