Saved Pay and Backpay: Reconsideration of Claim

An appeal was made to the disallowance of an employee's claim for saved pay and backpay incident to a grade reduction in 1964. The reduction was necessitated by a lack of funds, vitiating the saved pay claim. The Civil Service Commission held that the employee's appeal of reduction 9 years earlier was untimely. There was no backpay entitlement since no appropriate authority determined that the reduction was unjustified. Accordingly, the prior disallowance of the claim was affirmed.