Audit of Temporary Lodging Allowance Vouchers and Leave and Earnings Statements

Gao ID: 102482 May 24, 1977

Temporary lodging and other allowances were reviewed in accounts of the accounting and finance officer at Andersen Air Force Base. The review involved 135 members paid on 227 vouchers and included a comparison of 403 leave and earnings statements.

Forty temporary lodging allowance errors were found for $753.10 and nine errors for $790.48 involving erroneous payments of allowances. Errors were mainly due to: inclusion of wrong number of days of basic allowance for quarters (BAQ); computation errors; erroneous inclusion of housing allowance entitlements; use of wrong rate for BAQ entitlements; failure to carry forward expenses from prior vouchers; failure to include certain expenses; and erroneous inclusion of BAQ and subsistence entitlement for officers.

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