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B-188326 1 (1978-02-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfro0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .4 __ C __ THE COMWEFROLLN SWENERNAL DECIUION . OP THE UNITEn STATUE WASiINGTON. 0.C. af0a4a PILE: 8-188326 MATTER OF: DIGEST: DATE: February 13, I8 Charles F. Rade: - Waiver of Compensation Overpayment Navy employee requests waiver under 5 U.S.C. S 5584 of $115.46 overpayment of overtime for partitipmtion in sea trial. Waiver is denied aihc employee had participated in another sea trial three months earlier lasting jone day longer than sea trial for whiuh he was overpaid. Also, payents were made one month apart. Therefore, employee should have suspected error in overtime pay upon receiving larqer payment fo: L:e!ond and shorter sea trial Lnd advised his payroll office. sr. cnarles F. Ruder appoals from the action of our Claims Diviaion dated October'15, x976, upholding the decision of the Navy Accounting and Finance Office o deny Mr. Rader's request for waiver of an overpayment in the amount of $115.46 under 5 U.S.C. 5 5584 (Supp. IV, 1974) and 4 C.F.R., chapter 1, subehapter G. The record shows that Mr. Bader, a mechanical engineer at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard,.Bremertbn, Washington, was notified on April 11, 1975, that throu4h administrative error he had been orerpaid $115.46 for a sea trial he had participated in aboard the USS QUEENFISH in June 1973 while on temporary duty at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He requested waiver of this amount. His request was denied by the Navy Accounting and Finance Center by a letter dated September 10, 1975. The denial was based on the ground that Mr. Rader had been paid less overtime! iin connection with another sea trial which occurred in April 1973 and lasted 1 day longer than the sea trial in June 1973 for which he was overpaid. Hence, Mr. Rader should have realized that he was being overpaid when his payment for the June sea trial was larger than his oayment for the April sea trial. Mr. Rader requested reconsideration of the above denial. Mr. Rader states that he was unaware of the overpayment at the time it occurred. He further states that the sea trial form is not returned to the employee with the comptroller's calculations cf money due. Therefore, he was unaware of the exact amount to which he was enrtitled at the end of the sea 11 * U Y q 1% f I I , I

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