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B-275828.2 1 (1997-01-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafvw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G AO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-275828.2 January 28, 1997 Mr. Raymond D. Asedo 818 Pier View Way P.O. Box 207 Oceanside, CA 90249-0207 Dear Mr. Asedo: This is in response to your letter dated December 3, 1996, with enclosures, requesting that the Comptroller General waive the time limitations for filing claims provided by 31 U.S.C. § 3702. You ask that we waive the time limitation so that you may receive payment for military retired pay for 3 months in 1987 for which you received checks from the U.S. Marine Corps but which you failed to negotiate. As explained below, we may not comply with your request. You recently discovered the three checks in question, each in the amount of $922.55, dated in March, April, and May 1987, respectively, in your safe after your secretary misplaced them. Copies of correspondence enclosed with your letter show that in July 1996, you forwarded the checks to the Defense Finance and Accounting Center (DFAS), asking that replacement checks be issued. However, by letter dated November 13, 1996, DFAS, Kansas City Center, advised Congressman Ron Packard, who had inquired about the matter on your behalf, that reissuance of the checks is barred by 31 U.S.C. § 3702(c), which provides that any claim on account of a Treasury check shall be barred unless it is presented to the agency that authorized issuance of the check within I year after the date of issuance. While this 1-year limitation does not affect the underlying obligation for which the check was issued, a claim for the amount due based on the underlying obligation is subject to 31 U.S.C. § 3702(b), which currently provides that the claim must be received by the official responsible for settling the claim or the agency that conducts the activity from which the claim arises within 6 years after the claim 317122

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