B-198207: Aug 22, 1980

DIGEST: WHERE EMPLOYEE ELECTED OPTIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COVERAGE BUT APPROPRIATE DEDUCTIONS WERE NOT MADE FROM HIS PAY FROM 1968 TO 1977. SINCE PREMIUM DEDUCTIONS SHOULD HAVE BEEN REFLECTED ON LEAVE AND EARNINGS STATEMENTS. WHICH THEY WERE NOT. EMPLOYEE WAS ON CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE OF ERROR BEGINNING IN 1968 AND STANDARD FORMS 50 ISSUED HIM IN 1972 AND 1976 INDICATING OPTIONAL COVERAGE GAVE HIM WRITT...

B-198207: Jan 14, 1981

RECONSIDERATION OF OUR PREVIOUS DECISION WHICH HELD THAT WHERE EMPLOYEE ELECTED OPTIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COVERAGE BUT APPROPRIATE DEDUCTIONS WERE NOT MADE FROM HIS PAY FROM 1968 TO 1977. IS THEREFORE AFFIRMED. 2. IT DOES NOT NECESSARILY FOLLOW THAT EMPLOYEE IS ENTITLED TO WAIVER OF CLAIM AGAINST HIM FOR OVERPAYMENT OF PAY RESULTING FROM AGENCY'S FAILURE TO DEDUCT PREMIUMS SINCE IT CANNOT BE SAID TH...

B-198207: Jan 14, 1981

A federal employee requested reconsideration of a decision which denied his request for waiver of an overpayment that resulted from an agency failure to make deductions from his pay for optional life insurance coverage under the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Program (FEGLI). The employee argued that the decision contained a material error of fact and was based on erroneous conclusions of...

B-198207: Aug 22, 1980

An employee requested reconsideration of a Claims Division decision wherein his request for waiver of an overpayment was denied. The overpayment resulted from an agency's failure to make proper deductions from the employee's pay for optional life insrance coverage. The employee signed a form by which he elected optional life insurance coverage in addition to regular life insurance and authorized p...