Claim for Additional Amounts of Military Pay and Allowances

A widow expressed dissatisfaction concerning a GAO decision which denied her claim for additional amounts of military pay and allowances believed due on account of the action taken by the Army Discharge Review Board to upgrade the character of her late husband's discharge certificate from other than honorable to general. She claimed her husband's military pay records were improperly lost or destroyed by Government agents, and the loss of those records was an unacceptable reason for GAO denial of her claim. She also questioned how this decision might affect her Social Security benefits. GAO cannot rule on these questions as they are under the jurisdiction of the Social Security Administration. GAO has no basis for revising its decision regarding her claim for additional military pay, and cannot properly or lawfully authorize further payments beyond those which have previously been made to her.