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B-189818 1 (1978-02-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfru0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I by D~ECISION 440 .';,k I I THE COMPTROLLER OF THE UNITED GENERAL STAT8R WASHINGTON. D.C. 201549 DATE: February 14, 1970 Marjorie 3. Lowry - Transportation of Ifousehold Coods - Weight Limitation Employee's mother %ho lives on Social Security income and resides in her own Lrailer in Pennsylvania for 7 months of each year, but stays with employee for the z winter months of each year, has established her own household. Regardless of whether she may be re- garded as a dependent parent, she was not a member of employee's household at the time the employee reported for duty aL the new permanent stato. Employee is, therefore, an employee without immedlate family subject to the 5,000-pound Iimitstion on Lrans- portation of hou-.chold goods. Mr. Gary A. Ward, an authorized certifying officet at the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), iequests an advance decisLan as to whether Ms. Marjorie J. Lowry, an employee of the LEAA, may be rcimbursed for shipment of household goods weighing in excess of the 5,000-pound maximum applicable to employees vith- out irmnediate families. He states that LEAA is in doubt as to whether Ms. Lowry meets thu requirements for waiver of the 5,000- pound limitation. The record jhows that Ms. Lowry was traasferred from Washington, D.C.,to Kansas City, Kansas,in March of 1975. Movement of her household goods and personal effects was authorized en a commuted rate basis. Ms. Lowry's household goods totLlnd 6,640 pounds net weight, 1,640 pounds in excess of the 5,000-poucd net weight limitation for employees without immeilate families imposed by paragraph 2-8.2a of the Federal Travel Ragulations (FTR) (FPMR 101-7, May L973). Ms. Lowry contends that she should be reimbursed for the ship- ment of this excess weight because her 72 year old mother resides with her for 5 months of the year. For this reason Ms. Lowry main- tains a two bedroom apartment. She contends that the 1,640 pounds of exccs-s weight approximates the weight of furnishings for one bedroom. Ms. Lowry indicates that her mother receives $232.20 per month in Social Security payments and owns a trailer in which she IF F 4 ~~~~~~1 *1 FILE: B-18981P MATTER OF: CIGEST: i- I I

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