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B-166411 1 (1975-09-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcpp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Y L 9THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL .DECISI01 . N. OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: B-166411. AE.17 MATTER OF: Blaine L. Bowen -miscellaneous travel expense [DIGEST: The established rule is that cost of special equipment to enable an employee to qualify himself to perform official duties constitutes a personal expense of the employee and is not payable from appropriated funds. Employee would not be entitled to bedboard expenses needed for sleeping because of injury to back. Such expenses are considered part of lodging which are part of the expenses included in per diem. Neither would bedboard expenses be reimbursable as miscel- laneous expenses since such expenses are personal and not essential to the transaction of official business. This action arises from a submission by Orris C. Huet, Authorized Certifying Officer, National Finance Center, United States Department of Agriculture. He requests our decision on the claim of Mr. Blaine L. Bowen, an employee of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, who has submitted a reclaim voucher in the amount of $16 for bedboard expenses while traveling on official business. The bedboard expenses were originally claimed on two travel vouchers and were subsequently disallowed by two suspension notices issued by the agency because they were considered to be a personal expense and therefore not reimbursable. Mr. Bowen states that he suffered a back injury in the line of duty and that he has had two major back operations and additional medical treatments. The injury and treatment have been covered under a claim with the Bureau of Employees Compensation. As a result, the claimant reports it is impossible for him to sleep on a mattress without the rigidity of a board. He has equipped his own mattress with a bedboard at his own expense, but while traveling on official business, he must incur the expense of a bedboard. He adds that for the past nineteen years auditors have ruled that the cost of bedboards constitutes a legitimate expense and that his travel accounts have been paid. ocI15S? 7,5,- -~ /

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