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B-213498 1 (1984-05-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlrx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: e THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION OF THE UNITEO STATES FILE: B-213498 DATE: May 14, 1984 MATTER OF: Major Roger W. Loder, USAR DIGEST: An Army Reserve officer claims payment for travel expenses incurred during a period of active duty for training in 1976. The claim first received in the General Accounting Office on August 26, 1981, is disallowed since in the inter- vening period between the performance of duty and request for payment, all Govern- ment records which would justify payment or refute nonpayment were lost or destroyed. The burden of proof absent such Government records is on the claimant and he has not furnished appropriate financial records documenting his entitle- ment to payment. Major Roger W. Loder, USAR, requests reconsideration of our Claims Group's denial of his claim for reimbursement for travel expenses incurred during a period of active duty for training. Since Government records which would justify or refute the payment of the claim were either lost or destroyed in the intervening period beween the time of travel and the filing of the claim and the burden of proof on the claimant to furnish evidence of validiy or nonpayment has not been met, the denial is sustained. Major Loder submitted a travel claim in December 1930 for per diem and transportation costs of attending active duty for training during the period April 30, 1976, through May 3, 1976. The claim, first received in the General Accounting Office on August 26, 1981, contains a statement by Major Loder that travel and finance records for the period were lost by the 5064 United States Army Reserve Garrison in 1980, but that in October 1980 he found the claim in records of the unit to which he was assigned durino the years 1975-1977. He further contends that the claim has not been paid-or rejected for payment. The United States Army Finance and Accounting Center computed the amount of the claim as S337.50, but states that they have been unable to locate any records which would justify or refute payment of the claim.

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