https://www.gao.gov/products/420640

B-232454: Sep 1, 1989

Employee was overpaid salary due to the agency's mistake in setting step within his grade upon his promotion from one position to another. Waiver is not granted. Because the employee was furnished with a personnel record which on its face showed the existence of the error which led directly to the incorrect step placement. The employee is partially at fault for the overpayment. Sullivan was promot...

https://www.gao.gov/products/139475

B-232454: Sep 1, 1989

An Army employee appealed his denied request for waiver of erroneous salary overpayments he received over a 12-year period, contending that the overpayments resulted from an administrative error which incorrectly set his grade. GAO held that: (1) the claimant was at fault in accepting the overpayments, since he had access to a personnel record which showed the error; and (2) statutory law limited...