Comments on: Government employees misuse purchase cards

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:25:03 +0000

The transit agency I work for takes this P-Card program VERY seriously. Splitting purchases, Red-Flag purchases, computer or media items without authorization have serious consequences. Even the unions won’t challenge disciplinary action or termination with regard to P-Card fraud or abuse.

By: David Webb

David Webb — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:49:28 +0000

I work in our GPC Division and if the person uses a Government Purchase Card by mistake, I tell them to go to the merchant and do a switch payment. They take cash or another card and tell the merchant to place the transaction on it and remove the charges on the Government Purchase Card. There are many things a GPC holder has to do in order to purchase items from entering it into PCMS to the US Bank AXOL System. For the abuse above, they go to jail, pay a fine/restitution and lose their job.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:47:00 +0000

For a “first offense”, especially if it’s a simple mistake, I think it would be sufficient to just pay back the mistaken expenditure. After that I wouldn’t consider it mistaken anymore.

By: mschessika

mschessika — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:43:22 +0000

how about having the gov credit card in your wallet with all the rest of your credit cards thinking its just not going to happen to you and get $20 gas and not knowing it until the chain of command sits down with you and lets u know and you rush to pay it off and put it away to avoid any further penalties. do u think the cardholder should get penalized for the first offense or should?

By: Conster

Conster — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:13:22 +0000

They should run things in the civvie sector of the fed government the same way they run things in the military. If you are caught, expect to get a foot up your ass along with a bill for whatever you spent plus interest.

By: Puddy_tat

Puddy_tat — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:54:44 +0000

Hi All,

These people should all go to federal pound them in the backside prison do not pass go do NOT COLLECT that $200 GPCard!

Tat.

By: sharon

sharon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:20:37 +0000

There is a big difference between misusing a government purchase card and misusing a government travel card. THe big difference is that in the travel card, where you can take a cash advance, the individual is directly liable for payment to the credit card company NOT the government. There is no liability on the part of the Federal Government for an individually billed government travel card, period. However, the card is intended to be used for official travel purposes only. The fact remains that while getting cash advances when the employee is not on official travel is a violation of regulation, it is not a criminal offense. Hence the suspension…. for first offense, second offense he may well get fired.

By: S

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:26:53 +0000

An antitrust employee for the Department of Justice misused a government credit card and took $3000 out on cash advances. That person didn’t get fired they only got a one day suspension. Where the justice?

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:53:24 +0000

Luckily, lifting the gas tax for the summer should pay for all of that, right?

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:13:46 +0000

Fraud Guy, you said it: The cards can be restricted in certain ways, but all too often they are not. And then there are convenience checks, which bypass all that and which not that many people are even aware of.