B-272984: Sep 26, 1996

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requested a decision on which fiscal year appropriation FAA should charge for compensatory damages awarded under the Civil Rights Act of 1991 as part of an employee discrimination claim. GAO held that FAA should charge the salaries and expense appropriation available in the fiscal year in which the award determination was made, since that was when the clai...

B-272984: Sep 26, 1996

The Federal Aviation Administration should charge compensatory damages under section 102 of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to the appropriation of the fiscal year in which the final determination of the government's liability for compensatory damages is made. We conclude that FAA should pay the compensatory damages from the appropriation available in the fiscal year in which the determination to awa...