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B-178235 1 (1973-05-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadxo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITIED STATESr 3-7SM ay 7, 1973 o Hr. Robert E. Cvanaugh Authorized Crtifying Officer Office of Financial Ianageaut ervices United States Department of Cocerce Dear Mr. Cavanauht We refer to your letter of February 12, 1973, 1th enclosures, requesting a decision concerning vhether a $260 Voterans Adainistration home loan origination charge, claimed on a voucber.mubuitted by Hr. Jerome L. Kajctenski, an employee of the Department cf.Commrce, may be alloweds. The expense was incurred by the suployse il connection with a permanent change of station from Austin, Texas, to Denver, Colorado, in January 1972. Tou questicO whether this expense could poms17 be cousidered - an expense customarily paid by the purchaser of a residence tn the Denver, Colorado area so as to com within the purvLew of section 4.2d of Office of Hanacmant and Budget (01M) Circular No. A-56, revised Auguur 17, 1971, a an allowable expense. Prior to the June 29, 1969 revision of CM Circular No, t-56, ser- vice fees such as Veterans Administration n.'diag fe. or loan origina- tion charges were authorized expenditures ior vhich the purchascr could be reivbursed. Our decision, -169740, May 28, g1971, concerned ouch an expenso that occurred prior to the aforementioned revision of 0MCir- cular o. A-56. The revision, dated June 99. 1969, removed loan oriet- nation fees from tits lsting of rehbburseble expenses and prohibited reimbursement of expenses that are determinco to be part of the finance charea under the Truth in Lending Act. Our decision U-160674, Febru- ary 10, 1970, and publisuhed us 49 Coup. oen. 483 (1970), cited by you, concerns an expenditure made after the 1969 revlsion and accordingly we determined not to be reimbursable. Section 4.2d of OMB Circular No., A-56,.'evised August 17, 1971, states In pertinent parts Pr c ci.. c.eQ §J 16 79to 507 7 .05

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