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B-247263 1 (1992-07-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadocn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~i~tn ~ Comptroller General *of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Captain Charles E. Marunde, USAF File: B-247263 Date: July 23, 1992 DIGEST Where Air Force officer was overpaid basic pay totaling $70,089 over 23 months because of error in computing years of service, waiver of government's claim is denied foT all but $4,469 of amount incurred in first 6 months of militay service, because the officer could have detected subsetcuent overpayments by comparing his leave and earnings staten.ent to standard pay chart he had been provided. DECISION Captain Charles E. Marunde, USAF, has asked us to reconsider our Claims Group's partial denial of his request for waiver of the government's claim against him for erroneous payments of pay he received from February 1989 until December 1990. For the reasons stated below, we affirm the decision of the Claims Group. Captain Marunde was overpaid a total of $20,089.41 in basic pay over a.23-month time period. FromFebruary 1989 (the time he joined the Air Force) until September 1989, he was receiving basic pay as a first lieutinant with over 6 years of service, instead of thesproper pay for a first lieutenant with less than 2 years of service, resulting in an overpayment of $4,469.01. In September 1989, he was promoted to captain and until December 1990, received basic pay as a captain with 14 years of service instead of a captain with under 2 years of service, resulting in an additional erroneous payments totalling $15,620.40. The Air Force recommended and our Cldfims Group agreed that the initial oveiaym6nt should be waived because Captain Marunde was then new to the military and unfamiliar with the pay system. However, by the time of his promotion, he had been in the service for 6 months and had received a pay chart. Waiver of this amount was denied because, if Captain Marunde had reviewed the pay chart he received, he would have tound that a captain with under 2 years of , U

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