What claims does the Claims Division at the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals settle?
These include claims involving uniformed service members’ pay, allowances, travel, transportation, payments for unused accrued leave, retired pay, and survivor benefits, both within and outside of DoD; requests by uniformed service members of all services and civilian employees of DoD that the government waive debts they owe to the government resulting from the erroneous overpayment of pay and allowances (including travel and relocation); and certain contractual and quasi-contractual claims by individuals and commercial entities which traditionally have not been under the jurisdiction of the Board of Contract Appeals. Most of the contractual claims involve disputes between a transportation carrier and a uniformed service concerning the carrier’s liability for transit loss or damage when transportation services were acquired with a government bill of lading.
