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B-188890 1 (1977-11-30)

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OF:  David R. McVeigh - Temporary Quarters -
      Subsistence Expenses

  Employee who is transferred rents his residence
  to-his parents for a 2-year period by oral
  lease. Employee returns on change of station
  anu moves into his house with patents and claims
  temporary quarters allowance claiming that he
  paid his parent5 $9 pe day for the 30-day
  period. Statement by enployee..that at the end
  of the 30-day period whenhe could not find
  other.quarters decided to make it his permanent
  residenci Is too indefinite to support a con-
  clusion that his quarters were in fact temporary.
  ,Determinatibn of whether employee's quarters at
  new duty 'station are temporary or permanent is
  question of intent. Employee must bear burden
  of providing convincing proof of intent.


      SThislaction is at the request of Mr.-W. Smallets, Chief,
Finance and Accounting Officer of the National Secu6rity Agency
(NSA1, Central Security Service, Fort George G.'Meade, Maryland,
ihether a voucher in favor of Mr. David -lcVeigh an employee
of the.NSA, representing temporary quarters allowance in the
amount of $270 tray be paid. The request was transmitted to our
Offi6e by the.Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance
Coummittee of the Department of Defense, PDTATAC Control No.
77-15.

*    By'Travel Order No. TP6G0029, dated April 20, 1976,
Mr. McVeigh was transferred from Germany to Fort (borge G. Meade,
Maryland.  The travel order authorized temporary subsistence
quarters'for a- rriod of. 30 days. Following his return from
Germany, Mr. McVeigh moved into a residence at 426 Arbor Drive9
Glen Burnie, Maryland.  The residence was owned by Mr. McVeigh
and was being leased to his parents, under in oral agreement,
for a period oft2 years ending November' 1,1976. From
.September 1 to Jeptfmber 30, 1976, Mr. McVeigh paid his parents
$9 a day for room and board.

     Although Mr. McVeigh claims to have been luoki'ng for a
new residence during this period, he has submitted no evidence
of his effcrts to purchase or rent a new home. In any event,


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       DATE:   Ibvember 30, 1977


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