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B-186024 1 (1976-04-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddoh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISiON FILE: EN ITEV THE COMPTROL.ER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20 548 DATE: B-186024 APR 2 9 1976 99003 MATTER OF: - Reimbursement for real estate expenses - Time limitation DIGEST: Employee who transferred fr-om Valley Forge General Hospital to Indiantown Gap Military Reservation and reported for duty on June 11, 1973, may not be reimbursed for real estate expenses of sale of former residence since settlement did not occur until July 7, 1975, more than 2 years after date of reporting. Time limitation imposed by para. 2-6. le of - the Federal Travel Regulations has the force and effect of law and may not be waived in any individual case. See 49 Comp. Gen. 145, 147 (19869). This action is in response to an appeal by an employee of the Department of the Army, of a settlement issued by our Claims Division on January 29, 1976, settlement No. Z-2337577, disallowing the employee's claim for reimbursement of real estate expenses incurred in connection with the sale of his residence incident to a permanent change of station. was transferred in 1973 from Valley Forge General Hospital, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, to the Indiantown Gap Military Reservation (IGMR), Annville, Pennsylvania, where he reported for duty on June 11, 1973. In November 1974 final approval was given to a request by the employee for a one-year extension of the initial one-year settlement date limitation for reimbursement of real estate expenses. A contract for the sale of former residence was executed on March 7, 1975, well within the period of the extension, but settlement on the sale transaction did not occur until July 7, 1975, more than 2 years after the date the employee reported for duty at IGMR. Letters from the employee and the real estate agent handling the transaction suggest that the delay in settlement was the result of a misunderstanding by Veterans Administration (VA) personnel of the term artesian well used in the property descriptions which delayed VA approval of the pur- chaser's mortgage. request for an additional extension beyond the one- year extension previously approved was denied by the Army and subsequently transmitted to our Claims Division as a claim for C

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