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B-195708 1 (1979-10-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjgk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 6--1j1I I . 1 L,6I /.Z6 t COMPTROLLER GENFifAL OF TIM, UNITED SATES B-195708 to Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee Q H1offman Building 1, Room 836 2461 Eisenhower Avenue Alexandria, Virginia 22331 Centlem2nl Recently, a claim was presented to this Office by a member of the Army, who while stationed overseas nwas denied reimbursement for travel expenses he incurred when he sent his dependant~s home due to a family emergency. I r reviewing the claim, we concurred with the Army's denial of the Plain based on a provision of the .Joint Travel Regulations. However, it seenms that the. situation presented in that case is t recurring one and one which you might find appropriate as a basis to consider an amendment oc addition to the Joint Travel Regulations. The specific siluntion confionting the member was that he received notification on Augutst 10, 1977, that his mother-in- law w s in critical condition. The member requested emergency leave and approval, for the travel of his dependents, a wife and son, to the United States from his. duty station in Germany. After verifying the situntion, the Army issued a trovel nuthoriza- on 'August .2, 1977, which allowed the dependents to return to the United Statas at no expense to the Coverament on a space-aailablc basis due to verified emergency. See Department of Defense Directive (Air Transportation Eligibility) 45.15.13-R (C2), para. 4-5.(3) (Novenber 19, 1976). Because space-available travel on military transportation tins estimated to require a 3-or 4-day wait, the member sent his dependents fioine on a commercial airline. lie deemed the 3-or 4-day wait to be ton long due to the critical condition of his mot-her-in-law. Ills mother-in-law died before his dependents landed in the United States. Subtsequently, on the member's arrival in the United States his father-in-law requested that his wife rer.ain in the United SLates to care for school age brothers and sisters. As a result his dependents dtd not return to Germany at the expiration of i~is emergency leave. i *1.

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