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B-186346 1 (1977-01-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadeaw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL o DECIuIgN . . THE UNITED aTATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 0545 tITLP FILE: D-186346 DATE: Jaary 3, r19 MATTER OF: Stanley F. Savoy - Miscellaneous expenses ., Repayment of veteran's education assistance DiGEST: Eiplayre withdrew from academic courses because transferred in mid-quarter. Claim for amount of repayment to Veterans Administ-ation of ben- efits received may not be author -. d ror payment since such expenses are not amng these contem- plated in regulations, as held in B-162828, November 16, 1967. An authorized certifying officer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has requested an advance decision concerning the.propriety of payment of the claim of Stanley F. Savoy for reimbursement for education benefits which he had to repay to the Veterans Adm..nistration when a transfer caused him to withdraw from an educational cat..e prior to com- pletion. The record shows that Mr. Savoy was transferred from Spokane, Washingtonto Winnemucca,` Nevada, effective February 28, 1975. As a result of the transfier Mr. Savoy discontinued the college level courses he was taki g prior to the end of the term and was required:to repay to the Veterans Administration educational benefits whi6h he had recBived for the ther-current semestcr. Mr. Savoy states that the transfer was the iault of abolishment of his position at the Spolane office of the NOAA. Tho agency denied Mr. Savoy's claim sirce the Federal Travel Regulations do not specifically provide for the reimbursement of such costs and on the basis of our decision B-162828,.dated November 16, 1967. We held in that deciAiun.that a transferred employee could not be reimbarsed for the cost of payment of his daughter's previously waive1 tuition because such expenses were not among those contemplated as miscellaneous expenses under the then current regulation, Section 3.1b of Bureau of the Budget Circular No. A-56, Revised October 12, 1966. The regulation citbd above which was held co6trolling in' B-162828, supra, is a predecessor and substantially identical to the provision set forth in paragraph 2-3.1b of the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR), FPPR 101-7 (May 1973), witch governs Mr. Savoy's transfer. Mt. Savoy has stated that B-162828, supra, my be distinguished from his case since the claimant in that - .a. a JI

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