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B-190553 1 (1978-01-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfpa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i ~0 c%0N. THE COMPTROLLER UENERAL DIECUUION . . .yOF THE UNITEm TATaR . WAEHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FILE: 5-190553 DATE: January 31, 1978 MATTER OF: John S. Gough - Rome Service Transfer Allowance DIGEST: Employee transferred from Athen;4 Greece, to Washington,. D.C., was authorized home service transfer allowance under section 250 of the Standardiaed 1egulati6ns (Govenmient Civilians, Fdreign Areas). Employee submitted claim of $33 per day for lodging portion of home service transfer allowance for days that he iid family resided with relatives. Since section 251.1a of Standaidizrd Regulations auttiorizes only reasonable expenses,1 this Office applied ruling of 52 Comp. Gen. '78 (1972) which established guidelines for determining reasonableness of employees' claims for subsistence while occupying temporary quarters when they resided with relatives. This action results from the appeal of Mr. John A. Gough, an employee of the Department of state, of the settlement dated August 25, 1977, tiy our Claims Division which denied his claim for home service transfer allowance. Mr. Gough was reassigned from Athena, Greece, to Washington, D.C., effective May 21, 1976. Incident to that reassignment Mr. Gough claimed expenses for the,,temporary lodging of him- self-and his family by residing with relatives in Baltimore, Maryand, from May 21 through May 25, 1976, and from June 5 through :June 18, 1976, at $33 per day. During the intervening period, he occupied commercial lodging in Alexandria, Virginia, at a'cost of $36 per day. The sole issue presented pertains to the reasonableness of the $33 per day for lodging that Mr. Gough paid to his mcther-in-lnw. The home service transfer allowance is authorized by sec- tion 250 of the Standardized Regulations (Government Civilians, Foreign Areas). The allowance is defined at section 251.1a, as follows: 'Home service transfer allowance' means an allowance for extraordinary, necessary, and reasonable expenses, I! Ii I eN '1 r I I

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