B-258487: Feb 9, 1995

A former Navy member requested a waiver of indebtedness for erroneous payments incident to his discharge, contending that the Navy should waive his debt, since he was told that erroneous payments would be deducted from his final paycheck and he had no reason to dispute the amount of his final paycheck. GAO held that the: (1) Navy never provided the claimant with a final separation worksheet to sho...

B-258487: Feb 9, 1995

Former member is entitled to waiver of indebtedness under 10 U.S.C. Sec. 2774 resulting from erroneous payment of direct deposit paycheck following discharge because member was not given final separation worksheet which showed how final pay was computed and because of numerous other errors in computation of final pay which prevented member from being able to compute final pay amount. The total amo...