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B-199800 1 (1981-08-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjqk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: h 0LER ot 0 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASH I NGTO-N D. C. 20548 UNITE9 FILE: B-199800 DATE: August 12, 1981 MATTER OF: Clyde- A.- Finnell - Waiver of-Erroneous Overpayments --Living Quarters Allowances DIGEST: Employee received excess foreign living - quarters allowances through administrative error. --Though allowances owed the employee - fluctuated, -the. employe-e- should have been on notice of possible overpayment when he redeived-allowanc-e approximately 4 times the amount- he had- been receiving. Request for -waiv-er is den-ied for-all- overpayments received-after large overpayment since his failure- to make an inquiry indicates that he-was partially at fault. Waiver is-granted for-smaller overpayments made prior to large overpayment. Mr. -Clyde A. Finnel- requests reconsideration of our Claims Group settlement dated May 2, 1980, (Z-2821533), concerning his reque-st' -for waiver of erroneous payments-of Living Quarters Allowance. M-r. -Finnell, a- civilian employee,-Department of the Army,- Bremerhaven-, Germany, received a Living Quarters-Al-lowance (LQA) in addition to his compen- sation. The amount of LQA in which an employee is entitled to fluctuates due to changes in the value of the dollar and other cost of living factors. The record in this case reveals that from May 1977 to May 1979 Mr. Finnell never received the correct amount for LQA. For some of the pay periods he received overpayments, and on other occasions, underpayments. From the pay period ending May 28, 1977, until October 29, 1977, Mr. Finnell received overpayments totalling $173.88, an average of about $14 a pay period. The next pay period he received an overpayment of $104.37. The next 6 pay periods, ending February 4, 1978, he received overpayments totalling $90.30, which averages out to $15 per pay period. For the next 7 pay periods Mr. Finnell was underpaid a total of $160.30. Then for the pay --.----,---~-,----------7 L~Q/

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