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B-226666.2 1 (1988-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabldr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: a tv Comptroller General - of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 B-226666.2 December 22, 1988 The Honorable Brock Adams United States Senate Dear Senator Adams: This is in response to your letter of September 7, 1988, in which you request that we review correspondence from your constituent, Mr. Michael A. Weedman, concerning a trans- ferred employee's entitlement to reimbursement under the commuted rate system. Mr. Weedman has protested our denial of his claim for $567.60 in our decision in Michael A. Weedman, B-226666, Nov. 23, 1987. We have previously written to the Honorable Helen Delich Bentley on March 22, 1988, concerning Mr. Weedman. Mr. Weedman states that we have incorrectly characterized his claim as a request for reimbursement of actual expenses and that he and Congresswoman Bentley have been unsuccessful in gaining our response to the question whether an employee is or is not entitled to reimbursement on a commuted basis under the provisions of the commuted rate system. Mr. Weedman received a permanent change of station from Louisville, Kentucky, to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, in October 1984. Travel orders were issued October 5, 1984, which authorized Mr. Weedman to ship his household goods using the commuted rate system and to temporarily store his household goods for 60 days. The commuted rates are published by the Administrator of General Services under the statutory authority contained in 5 U.S.C. S 5724(c) (1982), and are contained in GSA Bulletin FPMR A-2. The GSA rates in FPMR A-2 are based on the rates in the Household Goods Carriers Bureau Tariff No. 400-C. A problem arose in Mr. Weedman's case when a local tariff rate increase affecting storage charges became effective June 30, 1984. The increase wab not reflected by GSA in its Bulletin FPMR A-2 until a new supplement was issued effective January 13, 1985, which also reflected a general across-the- board tariff rate increase. Thus, for approximately 6-1/2 months, the tariff rates were higher than the amount of reimbursement authorized by GSA for storage under V,~ K37( 7

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