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B-238906 1 (1990-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadwbp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -:HAl United States GAO) General Accounting Office Memorandum Date: August 24, 1990 To: Director, Claims Group, GGD - Sharon S. Green From: General Counsel - James F. Hinchman S1 Subject: Claim of Betty V. Fauset - B-238906 (Z-2862167) This responds to your March 12, 1990, memorandum concerning Ms. Fauset's claim for the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuity provided by her late husband, Petty Officer First Class (PO) Charles G. Fauset (Retired). We find that Ms. Fauset's claim should be honored. The record you have provided shows that P01 Fauset married Betty in 1951. They later separated, at some point before he retired from the Navy in 1967. On the basis of an SBP Election Certificate dated October 24, 1972, which bore P01 Fauset's apparent signature, the Navy Finance Center (NFC) established an SBP account for spouse coverage, and P01 Fauset's pay accordingly was reduced beginning March 1, 1973. Over the following years, NFC periodically notified P01 Fauset of SBP costs and annuity amounts, which he never questioned. In a September 11, 1981, letter to NFC, P01 Fauset's attorney alleged that Ms. Fauset had forged P01 Fauset's signature on the SBP election form. At NFC's invitation, P01 Fauset executed and submitted an affidavit, dated March 9, 1982, in which he denied that the signature on the SBP election was his, stated his belief that his estranged wife had forged it, and requested termination of the election. The Navy advised P01 Fauset's attorney by letter of September 27, 1982, that NFC had no authority to adjudicate an allegation of forgery, and that the SBP election would remain in effect until set aside by lawful authority. In this A Operations Improvement

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