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B-188802 1 (1977-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfmg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: h If/~ 4THE COMPTROLLER GENJERAL OECSCN .~2Y OF THE UNITED BYATBE WArHINQTON, D.C. 2Q540 FILE: B-18q802 DATE. December 30, 1977 MATTER OF: Fred T. Dick - Waiver of Overpayment DIGEST: k Drug Enforcement Administration employee requests waiver of overpayment of $10, 815.14. Pue to administrative erru-r employee con- tinued to receive 25 percent post differential payments (Saigon rate) after his assignment to Bangkok. Thailand, where the rate was 10 percent. Erroneous payments were shown in employee's earnings statement. Claims Division action denying waiver is sustained. Although employee received within-grade increase shortly after transfer, he was partly at fault because he should have known of overpayments as he was a-ware that upon transfer post differential should havc been reduced at least $105 per pay period. This action responds to an October 26, 1976, letter request from Peter B. Bensinger, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),. Deportment of Justice, for review and reconsideration of the action of our Claims Division that denied Mr. Fred T. Dick's application for waiver of overpayments of foreign post different-al in the amount of $10, 815. 14. In early 1972, Mr Dick was employed as a Supervisory Crimi- nal Investigator, grade GS-15, with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (13NED) (now DEA), Department of Justice, Saigon, Vietnam, Tn Saigon he was authorized a 25 percent foreign post differential. Effective June 14, 1972, Mr. Dick was transferred to Bangkok, Thailand, where he was only authorized a 10 percent post differential. Notwithstanding his reduced entitlement, through error Mr. Dick received payments of post differential at the 25 per- cent rate from pay period 14, 1972, through pay period 20, 1974, resulting in overpaymeits in the amount of $10, 815, 14. The records in this zase disclose that a Form 50, Notification of Personnel Action, was prepared at BNDD headquarters in Washington, D. C., on June 21, 1972, confirming Mr. Dick's official reassignment e.fective as of June iU, 1972. This docu- ment was received by Mr. Dick, who was then the Regional Director of the BNDD Southeast Asian Regional Office, Bangkok, Thailand, on July 24, 1972. The Form 50 indicated that he was I N VIN 10 F' I I - 2 I

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