SUMMARY OF PERSONAL - PROPERTY CLAIMS ACTIVITY DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1975

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24 February 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director
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FROM : John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT : Summary of Personal-Property Claims Activity
During Calendar Year 1975
The attached memorandum, again, is more background
reading, designed to give you a continuing insight into
the many facets of activity involved in the operation of
this large organization.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
THROUGH Director of Logistics
SUBJECT Summary of Personal-Property Claims Activity
During Calendar Year 1975
1. This memorandum is for your information only.
2. The normally slow-paced, stable volume of personal-
property claims processed by the Agency soared during calendar
year 1975. The increase in both the volume and dollar value
of claims received from Agency employees was, of course,
predictable in light of the emergency evacuations (from the
summer of 1974 through the spring of 1975) of our employees
and their families from overseas posts. The vast majority of
these evacuation claims reached the Claims Review Board during
the first 9 months of 1975, but some are still trickling in.
The figures cited in this memorandum and the attachment sum-
marize the claims which were completed during 1975, as well
as those which have been brought forward for action during
1976. In addition, a comparison is drawn to 1974 claims
activity, highlighting the sudden expansion in our claims
business. Our 1975 statistics are categorized as ordinary
claims (all those which are not evacuation losses), Southeast
Asia evacuation claims, and claims. The STATINT
1974 statistics used for comparat ve purposes cover ordinary
STATINTL claims only; no - claims were completed during that year,
and the Southeast Asia evacuations had not yet occurred. Some
of the more pertinent statistical findings are:
a. The 491 claims completed during 1975 represented
an increase of 225 percent over 1974 claims completed.
These 491 claims totaled $1,088,900 or an increase of
more than 1,300 percent above the amount claimed in 1974.
Of that total claimed in 1975, $681,700 was allowed, a
dollar approval rate of 62.6 percent in 1975 compared to
the 57.5 percent approval rate of 1974. (This increase
is partly caused by the most recent amendment to the
Military Personnel and Civilian Employees' Claims Act,
which raised the amount payable per claim from $10,000
to $15,000 for losses occurring after 18 October 1974.)
The average 1975 claim amounted to $2,218 compared to
$506 in 1974, and the average award totaled $1,388 in
1975 compared to $291 in 1974.
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b. In percentages, the 491 claims totaling $1,088,900
completed during 1975 and the additional 112 claims totaling
$553,900 carried forward for action in 1976 are distributed
as follows:
No. No. Carried
Completed Forward
Ordinary claims 38.7 41.1
STATINTL Southeast Asia evacuation claims 54.6 42.8
claims 6.7 16.1
Totals .T i00.6
c. In 1975, we received or brought forward from the
previous year a total of 603 claims amounting to $1,642,800
(491 totaling $1,088,900 completed during 1975 and 112
totaling $553,900 carried forward to 1976). Those 603
claims consisted of 236 ordinary claims totaling $180,800,
316 Southeast Asia evacuation losses totaling $1,333,200,
STATINTL and 51 cases totaling $636,500. By the
end of 19 5, 8.. percent of those 603 claims had been
completed (80.5 percent of the ordinary claims, 84.8 per-
cent of the Southeast Asia evacuation claims, and 64.7 per-
STATINTL cent of the claims).
2. Ordinary claims climbed both in numbers and dollar
amounts in 1975, continuing the steady but gradual upward trend
of the past few years. In 1975 and 1974 respectively, 190 versus
151 ordinary claims were completed, the average amounts claimed
were $722 versus $506., and the average amounts allowed were $402
versus $291.
3. As the above distributions show, the larger number of
claims originated from those employees who were forced to leave
STATINTL Southeast Asia during the spring of 1975. Their average losses,
though, were minimal compared to the far fewer
STATINTL The average Southeast Asia evacuation claim rocesse in
totaled $2,169, while the average totaled $11,227.
The average amount allowed on Southeast Asia claims was $1,516
STATINTL compared to $6,033 for
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During Calendar Year 1975
16 October 1975. Nearly 40 of those 87 remaining claims
require more information from the claimants involved (as is
frequently the case) and cannot be acted upon by the Claims
Review Board at this time. Unless the near future brings
another large-scale, multiple-loss situation, we believe we
will reach an acceptable workload level within the next 2
months.
STATINTL
Chairman, Claims Review Board
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ANNUAL REPORT ON PERSONAL PROPERTY CLAIMS
Swmnary of Calendar Year 1975 Activity and Comparison to
Calendar Year 1974
CALENDAR YFAR 1975
No. of
Claims
Amount
Claimed
Amount
Allowed
Dollar
Percentage
Allowed
Ordinary Claims Processed (Other than
evacuation losses)
190
$ 137,200
$ 76,300
55.6
Southeast Asia Evacuation Claims Processed
268
581,200
406,300
69.9
STATINTL
Claims Processed
33
370
500
199
100
53
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491
$1,088,900
$681,700
62.6
Carried Forward From 1975 to 1976:
Ordinary Claims
46
$ 43,600
Southeast Asia Evacuation Claims
48
244,300
Claims
18
266,000
STATINTL
Total Claims Carried Forward to 1976
112
$ 553,900
CALENDAR YEAR. 1974
Ordinary Claims Processed
151
$ 76,400
$ 43,900
57.5
Southeast Asia Evacuation Claims Processed
STATINTL
76,400
43,900
57.5
Ordinary Claims Carried Forward From
1974 to 1975
37,500
81
$ 37,500
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Breakdown of Calendar Year 1-975 Claims
No. of
Claims
Amount
Claimed
Amount
Allowed
Dollar
Percentage
Allowed
Ordinary Claims (Other than evacuation
Approved (including appeals)
146
$ 110,400
$ 76,300
69.1
Denied and/or withdrawn
44
26,800
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Total Ordinary Claims Processed.
190
137,200
76,300
55.6
Claims Carried. Forward to 1976
43,600
Total Ordinary Claims Workload for Year
236
$ 180,800
Southeast Asia Evacuation Claims:
Approved
265
$ 580,100
$406,300
70.0
Denied and/or withdrawn
Total Southeast Asia Evacuation Claims
Processed
268
$ 581,200
$406,300
69.9
Claims Carried Forward to 1976
48
244,300
Total Workload for Year--Southeast Asia
Evacuation Claims
316
$ 825,500
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No. of Amount
Claims Claimed
Amount
Allowed
Dollar
Percentae
Allowed"
Approved
33 $ 370,500
$199,100
53.7
Denied and/or withdrawn
STATINTL
Total
Claims Processed
33 $ 370,500
$199,100
53.7
Claims Carried Forward to Succeeding Year 18 266,000
STATINTL
Total
Claims for Year 51 $ 636,500
Breakdown of Calendar Year 1974 Claims
No. of Amount
Claims Claimed.
Amount
Allowed
Dollar
Percentage
Allowed
Ordinary Claims (Other than evacuation
losses):
Approved (including appeals)
Denied and/or withdrawn
Total Ordinary Claims Processed
Claims Carried Forward to 1975
Total Ordinary Claims Workload for Year
133
$ 58,800
$ 43,900
74.7
1.8
17,600
151
$ 76,400
$ 43,900
57.5
81
37,500
232
$ 113,900
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