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Claim for Payment of Basic Allowance for Subsistence

B-197888 Nov 18, 1980
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An Army staff sergeant requested reconsideration of the Claims Division's denial of his claim for retroactive payment of basic allowance for subsistence (BAS). The sergeant contended that he was receiving BAS when he transferred, but that, after the transfer, he was not paid BAS due to an administrative error. He indicated that he was not aware at the time that he was not receiving BAS. GAO found that there was no administrative report by the concerned Army command authorities to substantiate that the sergeant was actually authorized to receive BAS. If he was so authorized, there is no administrative explanation of the facts and circumstances which had previously prevented payment. Accordingly, the action of the Claims Division denying the sergeant's claim for BAS was sustained.

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