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B-183908 1 (1975-11-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadctd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 A Q- FILE: B-183908 DATE: MATTER OF: DIGEST: Robert W. West-Reimbursement for a house- hunting trip. Employee may be reimbursed for houschunting trip expenses even though he did not return to former station as househunting trip was accomplished during week before employee was scheduled to report to new station. It was in interest of Government for employee to remain at new station instead of incurring unnecessary travel expenses in a return trip to old station. Ms. Marie A. Watkins, an authorized certifying officer with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Dcpirtment of the Treasury, requests an advance decision on the propriety of paying the reclaim of Mr. Robert W. West for expenses incurred during a househunting' trip in cnneetion 1;! th a pernen t chan e of station from New Haven, Conecticut, to ashington, D.C. Mr. West's claim for househuating expenses was originally disal- lowed as he remained in Washington at the end of the trip instead of returning to Gonecticut. The record shows that Mr. Ifest was officially notified of his transfer on August 8, 1973. Form 4253, Authorization for Moving Expenses, was signed by the authorizing officer on August 3, 1973. Mr. West's reporting date was.to be August 20, 1973. However, the employee states that he did not receive notification that Form 4253 had been approved until August 15 or 16. At that time he requested that his reporting date be postponed until August 27, 1973. The request was granted, and the househunting trip began on August 21, 1973. In B-165825, January 29, 1969, we allowed payfaent for the expenses of a househunting trip where the employee remained at his new duty station. In that decision we pointed out that although the regulations authorize round trip travel for an employee and his wife to seek permanent quarters, the regulations also contain guidelines to eliminate unnecessary trips. In the instant case, as in B-165825, suirA* the househunting trip and the reporting date were so close together that it was in the 0%.LEf . e o 4 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES a WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 NOV 14 1975

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