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B-185826 1 (1976-05-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbzk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OS75 I 'E MP T: - L C- -.rL Z 1 ' 1E, C fZ.OF THE L'33E~ gATrs~ FiL-185826 DATE: IAm 2 76 MATTER OF: Benrde L. Pierce - Reimbursement of Subsistence Expenses DIGEST' 1. Voucher covering reimbursement for lunch consumed In travel status in addition to lunch cnaumed on airplane flight during same day may not be paid because, where meals are included in price of ticket and are provided during flight, it is not proper to allow reirn- bursement for duplicate meals, In the absence of objective Justifying circurn- stances. 2. Although'no voucher accompanied request for decision as to whether employees authorized actual subsistence expenses in travel status may be reim- bursed expenses for snacks, decision ia rendered because the problem is recurring and general in nature and the Comptroller General has broad authority under 31 U. S. C. S 74 to render decisions to heads of departments on any question tnvolved in payments which may be made by their dupartments. 3. Where employee is authorized actual subsistence incident to official travel, expenditures made by him for snacks, in addition to regular meals, may not be reimbursed since such snacks are not necessary expenses of subsiste.-ce. By a letter dated Jnnuary 22, 1976, Mr. Edwin J. Fost, Chief, Accounting Section, Office of Controller, Drug Enforce- ment Administration (DEA), of the United States Department of Justice, requested our decision regarding the propriety of reimbursement for a lunch consumed in travel status on November 6, 197, by Mr. Bennie L. Pierce, an employee of the Administration, in addition to a lunch contumed during a commercial airplane flight on the some day. In addition. we i& Co 7 L\5ff&G

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