B-210232: Jun 3, 1983

COMPENSATION - DOUBLE - SEVERANCE PAY CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) EMPLOYEES WERE TERMINATED BY A REDUCTION-IN-FORCE (RIF) AFTER THE LIFTING OF AN INJUNCTION ISSUED BY THE U.S. WHEN THE INJUNCTION WAS LIFTED. SEVERANCE PAY IS NOT BASIC PAY FROM A POSITION. SO PAYMENT OF SEVERANCE PAY IS NOT BARRED BY THE DUAL COMPENSATION PROHIBITIONS OF 5 U.S.C. 5533(A). COMPENSATION...

B-210232: Jun 3, 1983

The Director of the Personnel Systems and Payroll Division, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), requested an advance decision concerning the entitlement to severance pay of certain former HUD employees whose employment was extended by a court injunction and then terminated by a reduction in force (RIF) when the injunction was lifted. HUD made the RIF retroactively effective, contend...