United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1996-04-18 monographic deposited born digital 4 p. GA 1.13:B-271308 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-271308 P0b002ee18fd47ce4 f:271308 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-271308 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-271308 B-271308 Comptroller General Decision

An employee who was subject to a 104-week waiting period before his next scheduled within-grade pay increase (WGI), erroneously received a WGI after just 5 months, and was overpaid for over 15 months until the agency discovered the error. The denial of his request for waiver of the resulting debt is sustained. Absent mitigating circumstances, employees are expected to know the waiting periods for WGIs. In this case, at the time of the error, the employee had been employed by the agency for 6 years, during which he had experienced two 52-week and one 104-week waiting periods for WGIs, and there are no apparent factors that reasonably could have led him to believe he was entitled to the early WGI. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-271308/html/GAOREPORTS-B-271308.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-271308/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-271308.pdf GAO/B-271308 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-271308 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-271308; Barnett K. Ragsdale; Title 5 Section 5584 Title 5 Section 5584(b)(1) 5 U.S.C. 5584 5 U.S.C. 5584(b)(1)