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B-180391 1 (1976-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddyq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I c? tts~gV THE QDMIPTAIOLLfl GRNlRAL DECImIoil *. oP THE UNIT rD GTATLES WASHINOTON, D.C. 20tiflO A FILE: B-180391 MATTER OF: DIGEST: DATE; October 29, 1976 Dislocation allowance - PDTATAC Control No, 76-4 Where a permanent change of station requires the disestablishment of a household in one place and a reestablishment of the household in another, a dislocation allowance is author- ized, except for members without dependents who are assigned to Government quarters, In no event can more than one dislocation allow- ance be paid where only one movement of a household is required, However, where '\oth membtrs of the uniformed services married to each other qualify for a dislocation 4llow- ance upon a permanent change of station but only one movement of the household occurs, they may elect to be paid the greater amount of the two entitlements. This action is in response to a letter dated February 9, 1976, from the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), requesting an advance decision on several questions con- cerning the rights of military members, married to each other, to receive payment of a dislocation allowavea (DLA), The letter was forwarded to our Office by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee and has been assigned PDTATAC Control No. 76-4. The submission states that in our decicion B-180391, February 12, 1975, it was held that when a male and female service member are married to one another (both residing in the same house- hold) and both are ordered on a pormnnent change. of station, only one DLA is payable on a move to a new pvrmanont station where they reside in the same residence at the new station. In this connec- tion, the submission points out that the current provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations (JTR) authorize a DLA to each member in the before-mentioned circumstances, but that based on that dechiion a proposed change to the JTR's was forwardod to the services for cons1dcratirt. The submission goes on to state that there exists a disparity of view among the serviceR ars to whether that decision was intended 4.

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