Leave Errors Incident to Air Force Members' Permanent Change of Station

A review of the administrative procedures for determining the amount of delay enroute chargeable as leave upon an Air Force member's permanent change of station disclosed 149 instances involving 1,924 days of leave taken, but not reported, which created potential erroneous payments of about $46,300 at final separation. If the findings for the period reviewed are representative, the potential for error is considerable.

In 115 of the cases involving 1,700 days of leave and about $41,5000 in potential erroneous payments, no leave transactions had been processed, despite the fact the itineraries on the travel vouchers generally showed that leave had been taken. In 3 cases involving 75 days and about $1,500, leave transactions had failed the central computer program edits at the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center and were rejected for resolution and reentry. In the remaining 31 cases involving errors, leave transactions had not been processed at the time of the review. A proposed computer program edit of the arrival transaction to detect those cases where leave had been taken has not been accomplished because it is a low priority assignment.

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