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...