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B-161606 1 (1976-06-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddle0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION DIGEST: THE COMPTROLL=R GENERAL -a. OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20541 Civilian employee of Department of Army transferred from Seneca Army Depot, Romulus, New York, to Anniston Army Depot, Anniston, Alabama, and purchased residence in Huntsville, Alabama, to which he commutes on weekends. Since employee does not regularly commute to work from Huntsville, he may not be reimbursed for his real estate expenses in purchasing the residence in Huntsville. See B-171110, January 2a, 1971. Captain E.A. Evans, Finance and Accounting Officer at the Anniston Army Depot, Department oi the Army, requests an advance decision on the propriety of paying real estate expensa&-in the amount of $44.70 incurred by Mr. Nathaniel A. Wilson, incident to a permanent change of duty station. The record shows that Mr. Wilson, a civilian employee of the Department of the Army, was issued Travel Order No. 119, dated March 27, 1974, for a permanent change of duty station from Seneca Army Depot, RCamulus, New YorK, to Anniston Army D.epot, Anniston, Alabama. Mr. Wilson purchased a residence in Huntsville, Alabama, which is approximately two hours travel time irot iis duty station, and he retlurus Lo his residence nch seekend. The emloyee states that he purchated the house in HubtsVilId due to the availability of a job for his wife, educational opportunities for his children, and inadequate housing in Anniston. The adainistrative office disallowed those claims on the ground that Mr. wilson maintained an apartment in the Anniston area from which he commuted daily to his headquarters even though he maintained a residence in Huntsville a distance of approximately 102 miles. - Section 5724a of title 5, United States Code, allows reimbursement of expenies of.the purchase of a residence located at the new official station when incurred incident;,to transfer. in47 Comp. Gen, 109 (1967) we stated, the rule for detLnmitrg allowance of sueh expenses as followss FILE: B-161606 DATE: MATTER OF: Nathaniel A. Wilson - Real Estate Expenses

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