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B-224628 1 (1988-01-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmyw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 IDecision Matterof. Harold R. Fine--Relocation and travel expenses File: B-224628 Date: January 12, 1988 DIGEST 1. Under the Federal Travel Regulations, temporary quarters subsistence expenses are ordinarily limited to temporary quarters in the vicinity of the old or new duty station and are justified elsewhere only for unique circum- stances, if reasonably related to the transfer and not for vacation purposes. The employing agency properly denied the expenses for the employee's son living in an apartment and working in the city where the family formerly resided but which was not one of the employee's official stations involved in the transfer. Similarly, after another son left the new duty station to live at college for the regu- lar school term, that son's expenses were unrelated to the transfer and not allowable. 2. Temporary quarters subsistence expenses may be reimbursed while the employee is taking annual leave on trips away from temporary quarters established at the old or new duty station, provided the trip does not delay termination of temporary quarters and occupancy of a perma- nent residence at the new duty station. The fact that annual leave in excess of 240 hours might be forfeited if not taken before the end of the leave year should not be considered in making the determination as to whether use of the leave delayed the occupancy of permanent quarters. Any disallowance of the expenses wnen temporary quarters are interrupted for trips during annual leave does not add to the maximum period of 60 consecutive days of temporary quarters subsistence expenses authorized by the Federal Travel Regulations. 3. An employee in temporary quarters is not entitled to reimbursement for the cost of telephone installation. A telephone user fee is reimbursable if ordinarily included in motel and hotel bills in the local area of temporary quarters. ~LN~

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