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B-185948 1 (1976-05-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddnj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: * F ~ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISIOl . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 2054 'I FILE: MATTER DIGEST: 2 B-18594 OF: DATE: MAY 1 2 1976 Jesse A. Burks - Claim for additional reimbursement for temporary quarters subsistence expenses qgYACf 1. Internal Revenue Service employee, transferred from Sao Paulo, Brazil. to Washington, D. C.. incurred 48 days of temporary quarters expenses. Reim- bursement for such expenses is limited to 30 days since extension for additional 30 days may be granted only for transfers to or from Alaska, Hawaii, the territories or possessions, Puerto Rico. or the Canal Zone. 5 U. S. C. S 5724a(a)(3). Claim for expenses of additional 18 days spent in temporary quarters may not be allowed. 2. Transferred employee spent $912. 59 for food items in 30-day period, including $425.70 in 1 day. Because Federal Travel Regulations (FPMR 101-7) para. 2-5.4a (May 1973) limits reimbursement to reason- able costs of meals (including groceries consumed while in temporary quarters) and Department of Labor statistics indicate family, similar to that of employee, would spend between $329 and $413 per month, such expenses are considered unreasonable in absence of additional evidence that they were justified. 3. Although employing agency has initial responsibility to determine reasonableness of expenditures for subsistence while occu- pying temporary quarters, GAO has right and duty to review circumstances of each case submitted to it regarding reasonableness of such expenses. 4. Determination of reasonableness of expenditures of employee for subsistence while occupying temporary quarters may be made (by employing agency or GAO) by PUBLISHED DECISION 5 Comp. Gen. .........* 8

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