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[IRS Employee's Request for Waiver of Salary Overpayments]

B-260843 Published: Oct 24, 1996. Publicly Released: Oct 24, 1996.
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An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee appealed the partial denial of his requested waiver of indebtedness for salary overpayments he received after his promotion to a permanent position he had temporarily held. GAO held that: (1) the salary overpayments occurred because of IRS administrative errors; (2) IRS only informed the employee of the pay problems that occurred while he was temporarily employed at the higher grade level and that actions had been taken to prevent further overpayments; (3) 4 months later, IRS notified the employee that additional overpayments occurred following his promotion to a permanent position; and (4) the employee was entitled to waiver of his additional debt for the salary overpayments following his promotion to a permanent position, since he had no reason to believe that his pay rate was incorrect. Accordingly, the indebtedness waiver was allowed.

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