B-160696, MAY 24, 1967
Highlights
WHITFIELD: REFERENCE IS MADE TO YOUR LETTER OF APRIL 24. YOU HAVE FORWARDED WITH YOUR LETTER A PHOTOSTAT OF DD FORM 214 (REPORT OF SEPARATION FROM THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES) WHICH SHOWS IN ITEM 35 THEREON THAT THE TOTAL PAYMENT MADE TO YOU UPON YOUR SEPARATION JANUARY 8. SUCH PAYMENT WAS MADE TO YOU BY CHECK NO. 284937. WAS PROPER AND THAT SETTLEMENT IS SUSTAINED.
B-160696, MAY 24, 1967
TO MR. ROBERT L. WHITFIELD:
REFERENCE IS MADE TO YOUR LETTER OF APRIL 24, 1967, AND ENCLOSURE, CONCERNING THE SUM OF $600 DEDUCTED FROM THE AMOUNT OF $2,102.10 CERTIFIED TO BE DUE YOU BY OUR CLAIMS DIVISION ON MARCH 6, 1967, AS READJUSTMENT PAY INCIDENT TO YOUR INVOLUNTARY RELEASE FROM ACTIVE SERVICE SEPTEMBER 10, 1957, AS A RESERVE OFFICER, U.S. ARMY.
THE CERTIFICATION OF MARCH 6, 1967, IN PERTINENT PART READS:
"* * * LESS MUSTERING-OUT PAY RECEIVED, $600.00, UPON DISCHARGE ON AUGUST 8, 1949, AND JANUARY 8, 1953, ($300.00 UPON EACH DISCHARGE)"
YOU DO NOT QUESTION THE $300 MUSTERING-OUT PAYMENT INCIDENT TO YOUR SEPARATION FROM THE SERVICE ON AUGUST 8, 1949, BUT YOU OBJECT TO THE DEDUCTION OF ANOTHER $300 AND INDICATE THAT YOU DID NOT RECEIVE ANY MUSTERING-OUT PAYMENT INCIDENT TO YOUR SEPARATION BY HONORABLE DISCHARGE ON JANUARY 8, 1952.
IN SUPPORT OF YOUR CONTENTION THAT YOU DID NOT RECEIVE THE SECOND MUSTERING-OUT PAYMENT ABOVE REFERRED TO, YOU HAVE FORWARDED WITH YOUR LETTER A PHOTOSTAT OF DD FORM 214 (REPORT OF SEPARATION FROM THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES) WHICH SHOWS IN ITEM 35 THEREON THAT THE TOTAL PAYMENT MADE TO YOU UPON YOUR SEPARATION JANUARY 8, 1953, AMOUNTED TO $77. PRIOR TO THAT DISCHARGE, HOWEVER, YOU RECEIVED A MUSTERING-OUT PAYMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $300 UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE VETERANS' READJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1952, CH. 875, 66 STAT. 688 691. SUCH PAYMENT WAS MADE TO YOU BY CHECK NO. 284937, DATED OCTOBER 17, 1952, DRAWN IN YOUR FAVOR ON VOUCHER NO. 4058 BY H. D. LLOYD, LIEUTENANT COLONEL, FC, SYMBOL 215-142. THE ENCLOSED COPIES OF THE FACE SHEET OF VOUCHER NO. 4058, THE PERTINENT CHECK RECORD COVERING CHECK NO. 284937 AND YOUR APPLICATION FOR MUSTERING-OUT PAYMENT UNDER THE 1952 ACT SHOULD REFRESH YOUR MEMORY IN THE MATTER.
THE RECORD BEFORE THIS OFFICE THUS ESTABLISHES THAT YOU RECEIVED $300 AS A MUSTERING-OUT PAYMENT UNDER THE MUSTERING-OUT PAYMENT ACT OF 1944, CH. 9, 58 STAT. 8, AND $300 UNDER THE 1952 ACT. ACCORDINGLY, THE DEDUCTION OF $600 FROM THE AMOUNT OF READJUSTMENT PAY FOUND DUE YOU IN THE CERTIFICATION OF MARCH 6, 1967, WAS PROPER AND THAT SETTLEMENT IS SUSTAINED.