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B-189623 1 (1981-03-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjdw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION 7 7/,-1 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 2 0543. FILE: B- 3 DATE: March 2, 1n81 MATTER- Burney P. C. Soote - Actual subsistence expense - reconsideration DIGEST: Employee on temporary duty in New York may not be reimbursed full cost of apartment rental, utilities and maid service when she shares the apartment with her husband whose official permanent duty station is New York. The facts that she and her husband choose to maintain a second residence in Washington or that she was living in the apartment in New York prior to his joining her do not provide a basis for reimbursing her any more than the addi- tional costs he may have incurred as a result of her joint occupancy of the New York residence. B-189623, May 19, 1978, affirmed. Mrs. Burney. P. C. Boote, through the Assistant Attorney General for Administration, Department of Justice, requests reconsideration:qof that portion of our decision~of May 19, 1978, B-189623, which denied her claim for reimbursement of lodging costs consisting of apartment rental, telephone, utility, and maid service charges, incident to her temporary duty during 1977 in New York City. For the reason set out below the prior decision is affirmed. 'In that decision we held in effect that these expenses coul d not be reimbursed because the address of the apartment for which these expenses were claimed was the permanent address'of Richard H. Boote, Burney P. C. Boote's husband whose official duty station was New York,..and with whom she was staying while on temporary duty there. We applied the rationale that reim- bursement of expenses for noncommercial lodgings provided by friends or relatives is limited to the additional costs actually incurred by the host providing the lodgings, an amount considerably less than similar motel charges. The claimed expenses of apartment rental and teleobonei'tility, and cleaning charges were not correlated to the additional costs that R. H. Boote incurred as a result of Mrs. Boote's stay in the apartment during her period of temporary duty. Instead they were the entire expenses incurred rather than additional cdsts, and accordingly they were held not reimbursable. e26±

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