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B-256230 1 (1994-08-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablii0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 133268 B-256230 August 17, 1994 Mr. Richard T. Brown Air Force Audit Agency 303 South Crickett, Suite 2 Kelley AFB, Texas 78241-6023 Dear Mr. Brown: This further responds to your December 6, 1993, letter appealing our Claims Group settlement, Z-2868779, November 3, 1993, denying your claim for reimbursement for an additional 46 days of temporary quarters subsistence expenses (TQSE) incident to your permanent change-of-station transfer in 1992 from Ramstein AB, Germany, to Kelly AFB, Texas. Essentially, you argue that the Air Force acted arbitrarily in limiting the extension of TQSE they granted you to 14 days rather than the full 60 days you requested. You argue that since you were not authorized a househunting trip, which would have allowed you more time to obtain permanent quarters, such as employees transferring between two duty stations in the United States may receive, different rules should apply to you concerning granting an extension of TQSE. In your case, the agency authorized an initial period of 60 days, and it did grant you an extension of 14 additional days in recognition of your efforts to locate housing at your new duty station and the fact that you did not receive a househunting trip. However, it denied the additional 46 days you requested on the basis that while in the TQSE status you elected to have a home constructed with the knowledge that you would not be able to occupy that home until after the initial 60 days of TQSE expired. The determination was within the agency's discretion to make, and the reason for their denial is supported by provisions of the applicable regulations. Federal Travel Regulations, 1The statute which authorizes househunting trips limits such trips to persons whose old and new duty stations are in the United States. 5 U.S.C. § 5724a(a) (2).

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