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B-184624 1 (1976-08-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduht0001 and id is 1 raw text is: f~TG~ ~L~-LiF o !! THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION o. OF THE UNITED STATES 24- WA SH IN GT O N, 0. C . 2 0 5 48 FILE: B-184624 DATE: AUG 5 1976 MATTER OF: -- Request for waiver of erroneous overpayment of pay DIGEST: Where civilian employee has longt:,practical experience in Government and is working in civilian personnel office when erroneously advanced from step 4 to step 5 after only 52 weeks instead of 104 weeks, then knowledge of error must be imputed to employee and request for waiver denied. B-168823, February 17, 1970. This decision is in response to a request from the Office of the Administrative Assistant of the Department of the Army that we review the decision of our Transportation and Claims (now Claims) Division, DW-Z-2517914-MTB-3, September 13, 1974, which denied the request for waiver of an overpayment of pay in the amount of $608.52 to , a former employee of the Office, Secretary of the Army, Office of the Personnel Manager, Washington, D.C. was reassigned from the Office, Secretary of the Army, to the U.S. Army Vietnam, Office of the Civilian Personnel Director, U.S. Citizen Civilian Personnel Office, as a supervisory position classification specialist effective July 30, 1971. received a within-grade increase from GS-12, step 4, to GS-12, step 5, effective October 3, 1971. This increase was erroneous since had received her increase to GS-12, step 4, on October 4, 1970, and there is a requirement that general schedule employees serve 104 weeks at step 4 before they are eligible for an increase to step 5. received notification in October 1972 of a within-grade increase to step 6 and-at that time reported that an error had occurred. ____ states that when she received notice of a freeze in step increases in August 1971 she was also told that the freeze would delay her October 1971 increase. She states that she asked that her file be checked to verify if she was eligible for a step increase as she was Unsure and that a local-hire Vietnamese clerk and an American employee both checked her records and assured her that she was due an increase. As a result of the erroneous increase was overpaid in the gross amount of $608.52. The initial request for waiver was forwarded to our Transportation and Claims Division by the U.S. Army Finance Support Agency for determination. The forwarding letter stated that there was no indi- cation of fraud, misrepresentation, or lack of good faith on the part

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