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B-186809 1 (1976-07-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddmc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: , .L1ER j THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL a Si 1 ./ .vi OF THE UNITED STATES VWASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: D-186609 DATE: JUL 2 1976 MATTER OF: Sonsak Chinvanthananond - Subsistence, per diem, retroactive adjustment. DIGEST: Travel orders authorizing $25 per dies, a prior maximum rate for travel within the United States, may be adjusted to $33, a new maximzum rate, since ag-ency policy to pay maximun rate to persons attend- ing a training pro.ram was not followed. Further, the official who authorized travel intended that max- imum rate be paid. This action concerns a request from Melvin L. Hines, an authorized certifying officer of the Department of State, as to the prbpriety of certifying for payment a voucher in the amount of t344, representing the difference between per diem in lieu of subsistence previously advanced to Mr. Somsak Chinvanthananond for 43 days at the rate of $25 per day and per diom at the rate of $33. Mr. Somsak's travel orders dated May 23, 1975 authorized travel between aanzkok, Thailand and Washington, D.C., and return to attend the Foreign Service Econonic and Commercial Local Trainin, Progran. Although the Travel Expense Amendventa Act of 1975, Pub. L. rio. 94-22, 39 Stat. i84, was approved on -ay 19, 1975 to increase the maximum per diem allowance of not to exceed .35 for travel within the continental United States, Mr. Somsak's travel orders authorized per dies at the rate of $25 per day. It is explained that Forei 'n Service Institute in- tended to authoris4 the maximum per diem rate for all students in attendance at the Program. This intent was manifested in Mr. Somsak's tele-raphic travel authorization fron the Office of the Secretary of State to the American Enbassy in Bangkok which reads: 2axinuu travel advance should be provided by the post prior to departure at the rate of 25 dollars per day while in U.S. In light of the intent to approve the maxirurm rate, it is asked whether the amount of per dies allowed in the travel order may be retroactively increased to the amount permitted by the Travel Expense Amendments. -.-.----- ----V.---

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