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        9 't.  9CoMPTROLLEH GENERAL, Or THE UNfITED STATES
                                 WASHIiIG ON, D.C. LU



          3-172885                       may 150 1973


          Tts C oandant of the Marine Corps
          Department of the Navy
          United States Harine Corps
          Washington, D.C. 20380

          Dear Sir:

               Further reference ic w=de to our letter dated February 28, 1973,
          requesting a report concerning the propriety of waiving the claim of
          the Vatted States in the amount of $618.44 against Mr. James A.
          Ilentz, 220 90 63, a former pember of the United States Marine Corps,
          under the provisions of Public Law 92-453, October 2, 1972, 86 Scat.
          758, which =ended title 100 U.S. Code by adding section 2774,

               In your report it is indicated that a wonthly allotment
          doduction of $36 from his pay w4s authorized in Satember 1967t The
          allotment was payable to the Jaclwonville Navy Federal Credit Uniou,
          Jacksonville, Florida, .coentl: November 1967, and an appropriate
          entry was made in his pay record, lowever, it became necessary to
          open a new pay record for Hr, Wcntz in October 1967 and the $36
          allotment aeauction was orroneously onitted. Payments to the credit
          union coneced in November 1967 and continued through lHarch 1969
          without deduction from his pay.

               In April 1969 you say an allotment reconciliation audit
          established tI st deductions had not been made for the period Novem-
          ber 1967 throuch December 1968. A pay adjustnent authorization was
          issued on April 3, 1969, to charge Mr. Wentz' pay record $504 for
          the period November 1967 through December 1968, and the authoriza-
          tion abo directed the disbursing officer to adjust the pay record
          opened January 1, 1969, if the same error had occurred on that pay
          record. It is reported that the directed actions were not taken,
          nor was lr. Wentz iniormod of the indebtedness since he had been
          separated from the service on February 15, 1969.

               It is stated that the error was again detected during a
          post-separation review of Hr. Wentz' pay account in May 1970. An
          Advice of Indebtedness was prepnred on Hay 27, 1970, indicating
          he had been overpaid by $612 by reason of the payment of the




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