B-226465: Mar 23, 1988

CIVILIAN PERSONNEL - Compensation - Overpayments - Error Detection - Debt Collection - Waiver DIGEST: An agency inadvertently stopped deducting health insurance premiums from the salary of an employee who was transferred to an overseas duty station in late 1977. Although there is no evidence of fraud. We conclude that he was partially at fault in the continuation of the overpayment. The employee s...

B-226465: Mar 23, 1988

A United States Information Agency (USIA) employee appealed the denial of his request for salary overpayment waiver, contending that the overpayment: (1) resulted from an administrative error; and (2) was less than the recorded amount, since he made some repayment. GAO held that the employee was partially at fault for failing to review his earnings and leave statements to ascertain whether USIA ma...