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B-196808 1 (1980-07-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadikp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTPOLLER GENERAL DECISION 7OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D C 20548 FILE: 8-19680 DATE: July 17, 190 MATTER OF: DIGEST: (1) The Reverend C. Jerome Huneycutt A member of the Air Force designated his father, who was not dependent upon him for support, to receive an allotment of all his pay and allow- ances in case he became missing. After the member became missing the Secretary of the Air Force had authority under the Missing Persons provisions to change the allotment to the father when he determined it was in the interest of the member to put pay and allowances into the Uniformed Services Savings Deposit Program rather than pay them over to the father. (2) .The father of a member in a missing status is not entitled to the accrued pay and allowances, including amounts deposited in the Uniformed Services Savings Deposit Program (USSDP), when the member is determined to have been killed in action, even though he was designated to receive an allotment of 100 percent of the member's pay and allowances if he went in a missing status, since the Secretary concerned has the authority under 37 U.S.C. 551-558 -to discontinue such an allot- ment. The amounts accruing to mem- ber's account, including deposits in the USSDP are then distributed in accordance-with 10 U.S.C. 2771, in this case to the designated beneficiaries, his sisters. The issue is whether The Reverend C. Jerome Huneycutt is entitled to receive pay and allowances due Major Charles J. Huneycutt, Jr., his son, which were invested under 10 U.S.C.