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B-184024 1 (1976-01-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddsn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-1 MATTER OF: DIGEST: /1THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL * *~ OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 84024 , DATE: JAN 21I76 Eligibility for Temporary Quarters Subsistence 1. Although FTR para. 2-4. 1c provides that a trip for seeking a permanent residence may be avoided if temporary quarters subsistence is to be autho- rized, the authorization of a house-hunting trip does not preclude an authorization for temporary quarters subsistence if circumstances warrant. 2. Fact that employee's family could have remained at former duty station rather than occupying temporary quarters at new duty station pending completion of new residence does not preclude authorization of temporary quarters subsistence allowance. Also, agency has discretion to deter- mine whether family was necessarily occupying temporary quarters. Therefore, where employee had been authorized house-hunting trip and his family of five traveled with him to new station instead of waiting for carrier to pick up household goods, he is entitled to allowance for family since agency did not abuse discretion in authorizing and approving allowance. An advance decision has been requested by an authorized certifying officer of the Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Admin- istration, concerning the eligibility of Mr. Raymond A. Oakley's family for a temporary quarters allowance incident to a permanent change of station from Sevierville, Tennessee. to Warner Robins, Georgia, effective June 10, 1974. By a travel order dated May 10, 1974, Mr. Oakley was authorized one round trip to his new duty station to seek residence quarters. The order also authorized him subsistence expenses for himself and his family while occupying temporary quarters. Mr. Ockley, accom- panied by his wife, departed Sevierville, on May 19, 1974, and traveled to Perry, Georgia, to seek a new residence as authorized by his travel orders. During the trip the Oakleys arranged for the purchase of a dwelling then in the final stages of construction. On June 10, 1974, Mr. Oakley and his family left Sevierville and traveled to Perry by privately owned vehicle. On arrival later that day the Oakleys occupied temporary quarters because the dwelling, acquired as a result of the house-hunting trip, was not yet ready for occupancy. Also. Mr. Oakley

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