Legal Instruments Examiner

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-07. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

• Examine electronic case files and approve the validity of legal evidence of varied nature to process claims, process transactions, and establish entitlement to securities and official information within the perspective of relevant laws, regulations, and precedents. Legal evidence includes death certificates, Guardianships, Conservatorships, and Powers of Attorney.
• Analyze customer requests and supporting evidence to ensure that securities transactions are processed in accordance with Treasury securities regulations, policies, precedents, and federal and state laws in a timely and efficient manner.
• Provide guidance and assistance to third-party verifications (i.e., Social Security Information) requesting confirmation of an individual's current holdings. Typical issues include researching securities systems to verify the actual owner of bonds.
• Initiate an investigation of the retirement of a bond previously reported as lost, stolen, destroyed, or not received when a double payment has occurred. The employee establishes accounting controls over the investigation.
• Communicate with individual owners of securities, legal representatives, financial institutions, federal agencies, Federal Reserve Banks, and employees in other areas of the agency.