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B-185511 1 (1976-03-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddeu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROL.,ER GENERAL * OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 197 6 DATE: MATTER DIGEST: OF: Patrick J. Twohig - Expenses incurred incident to househunting trip of wife Employee who located a new residence while on temporary duty at location of duty sta- tion to which he was thereafter transferred, thus shortening the period of his occupancy of temporary quarters, may not be reimbursed for the cost of his wife's accompanying him on the temporary duty trip as a househunting expense in the absence of advance authoriza- tion. Subsequent authorization for a house- hunting trip given on the basis of an after-the-fact determination that authoriza- tion of such expenses would have resulted in reduced cost to the Government furnishes no basis for payment. This decision is rendered at the request of Mr. Patrick J. Twohig, an ACTION employee, for reconsideration of our Trans- portation and Claims Division's (now Claims Division) Settlement Certificate No. Z-2555396, June 10, 1975, disallowing his claim for reimbursement of travel and per dieoi expenses incurred by , his wife in locating a residence at his new duty station in San Francisco, California. Mr. Twohig's claim for the $453.75 in question arises in connection with his change of official station frci Washington, D.C., to San Francisco, California. The travel orlder originally issued in Septenber of 1972 in connection with that permanent chantge of station included authorizatilon for payment of temporary quarters subsistence expenses and expenses for temporary storage of household effects at the new duty station but did not autnorize a househunting trip. However, on September 6, 1972, the employee was issued orders for a temporary duty assignment for the purpose of attending a training pro-ram in the San Francisco area. Mr. Twohig states that his supervisor allowed him to spend time during the course of that temporary duty assignment in locating a new residence and that it was for this reason that his wife accompanied him in making the trip. While in San Francisco they located and entered into a contract for the purchase of a new home. FILE: B-185511

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