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B-176613 1 (1973-01-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadduy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 1-176613 January 2, 1973 Major John T. Donohue Finance and Accounting Officer Through Headquarters Department of the Army (DACA-FIS-PT) Forrestal Building 099 53G Washington, D. C. 20314 Dear Major Donohue: This refers to your letter dated April 19, 1972, which was forwarded here by 1st endorsement, dated July 21, 1972, of the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee, requesting an advance decision as to the legality of payment of a dislocation allowance to Lieutenant Colonel Jeanne E. Rivera, Army Nurse Corps, as a member without dependents. Your request has been assigned PDTATAC Control No. 72-29. By orders issued January 14, 1972, Colonel Rivera was ordered to travel on a change of permanent station from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, with a reporting date of March 20, 1972. Pursuant to these orders, the member submitted the enclosed voucher claiming a dislocation allowance as a member without dependents. You say that such allowance has been paid to the officer twice before, under sim!lrr conditions. However, you say doubt exists as to the legality of the payment since Colonel Rivera is presently receiving basic allowance for quarters as a member with dependents in behalf of her dependent mother. As the mother has not and does not intend to join her daughter at her new station you say that there is no entitlement to dependents travel or dislocation allowance as a member with dependents. The officer has not been assigned Government quarters at her new station. Section 406, title 37, U.S. Code, provides in part, that a member of a uniformed service who is ordered to make a change of permanent station is entitled to transportation of his dependents, to reimburse- ment thereof, or to a monetary allowance in plece of transportation, subject to such conditions and limitations as are prescribed by the Secretaries concerned. Section 401 of title 37, U.S. Code, reads, in part, as follows: 1 401. Definitions In this chapter, 'dependent', with respect to a member of 'uniformed service, means-- PUBLISHED DaCIIC:

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