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B-176907 1 (1973-01-18)

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0                 . COMPTRO..ER*.GENERAL OF- THE' UNITE.STATES
                               VLASHINGTON, D.q. 201548


    B-176907,.                                 J&N it 1973




    Hleadquarters,~ Bangkok Datakuaent
    U. S.- Amy SUport Thailand.         .
    APO San Francisco __9634.6..

    Dear Serge ant

          Furthler reference is made to. your Xe.tter of aue ;3, 1972,-in
    affect requesting raeconsideration of.the settle*ent of our Office
    dated April 15-, 1970, which* disallowed your claim for reimbursement
    of $360 reftnded to the Government for overpayment of reenlistment
    bonus- We :also :have your letter of 6o;1ber 7, 1972..     

          The record shows that. you reenlisted on June. 19, 1949, for an
    unspecified. period of tim . and received a $50 enlistment allowance.
    Thereafter you. received-anniversar payments totaling $355 over a
    perid of siXayears incident to that onlisttment  On July 20, 1955,
    you renlus.ted .for. four years and reeived a reenlistment bonus of
    $936- When.you.reenlisted  again on Jdy 20, 1959, you received a
    renlistment, bonus of $i1,100 making a total of'.$2,391 you received
    incident to the1955 and. 1959 enlistments and the anniversary pay-
    mants acidett'to the 1949 enlistment•'

          The payment of reenlistment bonuses incident to reenlistments
    entered into on..or after October I, 1949 was authorized by section
    207 of the •Career C pnsation Act df 1949, 63 .Stat. 811, which.
    provided that. the total amoutt .of such payments should not -eeed
    $1,440. The 1949 act was. amended by the act of July 16, 1954,
    68 stat. 48, which added section 208, now codified as section 308P
    title 37, U.S# Code,, and .i*ih now governs the payment of reenlist-
    meat bonuses. That section-provide-sfor payment of reenlistment
    bonuses computed -on a. d erentba#sis-and, generlly .in a greater          ,,  ,
    amount than is. provided in:-seation 20.7.

          The total smount0 of renlist~t bops that may-be paid to a
    member Was. limited by subsection..28.(c) ,#Vreading.- a follows: '
               he cumulative amount'ihiih 'ay be paid to a
          member, under thin section, or-..udr this'section
          and any other prdvision.of !a .4uthorizing reenlist-
          meat bonuaes, 'May not. eceed $2,O00.

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