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B-182519 1 (1975-07-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcoc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DEC I1IN 2J / OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: B-182519 DATE: jUL 2 1975 MATTER OF: Joseph J. White, Jr. - Unpaid Compensation Reconsideration of Claim of Joseph J. White, III DIGEST: Where deceased Government employee incorrectly listed name of person whom he desired to receive part of any - compensation due him at death, but evidence shows whom he intended to receive this compensation, intended beneficiary is entitled to payment. This action is a reconsideration of a claim by Joseph J. White, III, for part of the compensation due his father, Joseph J. White, Jr., a former employee of the Department of the Navy, Norfolk Navy Shipyard Branch, Portsmouth, Virginia, at his death. In a decision dated April 2, 1975, we sustained the disallowance of the claim of Joseph J. White, III, a son of the deceased employee,for this compensation because his father had designated beneficiaries to receive any compensation owing him at his death and, under 5 U.S.C. § 5582 (1970) such beneficiaries are entitled to recaivc adh =npaid compensation. A child of a deceased employee, if not designated as a beneficiary, is only entitled to any compensation due his parent at his parent's death, if no beneficiaries have been designated and there is no surviving spouse. Mr. White again challenges the right of Rickie P. White (Weeks), a designated beneficiary, to receive part of the unpaid compensation, and claims that this part should be paid to him. Mr. White's claim, this time, is based on the fact that when his father listed those whom he wished to receive any compensation due him at his death, he listed Kathryn G. White and Rickie P. White and there was no beneficiary designated as Rickie P. White (Weeks) or Rickie P. Weeks. He argues, therefore, that there was no proper beneficiary named and that he is entitled to receive the unpaid compensation which would have been payable to Rickie P. White. The record indicates that the name of the beneficiary was listed incorrectly. However, there is evidence to whom the decedent was referring when he listed the name of Rickie P. White. Rickie Weeks was the son of Kathryn White by a previous marriage and was treated as.a son by the decedent. The address given as

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