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B-190525 1 (1978-04-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfxe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL CECISION 0.42A. OF THE UN ITEC STATED WASHINGTON. D.C. 20048 Chilt B-190525 DATE: April 7. 1978 MATTER OF:LaOdie V. Birge, Jr. -- Claim for lodging and travel expenses while on temporary duty DIGEST:1. Employee assigned to 2-month temporary duty assignment in Washinton, D.C., interrupted assignment and was away from Washington, D.C., on two occasions due to death in family and for medical reasons. Employee's claim for lodgings expense incurred while he was away may not be paid since it has not been determined be had no alternative but to retain lodgings while away from temporary duty station. 2. Employee on extended temporary duty assignment in Washington, D.C., returned home voluntarily during nonworkday break but did not return to temporary duty due to medical reasons. Since employee, in essence, abandoned temporary duty assignment when he was advised of need for surgery, he may be reimbursed travel and subsistence expenses up to point of abandon- ment. However, since travel was part of voluntary weekend travel under para. 1-8.4f of Federal Travel Regulations, employee may be reimbursed only to extent travel does not exced allowabLe travel and sibsistence expenses he would have incurred if he had remained at temporary duty station. 3. Employee, who returned to permanent duty station voluntarily during nonworkday break and abandoned temporary duty assignment due to medical reasons, claims return travel to temporary duty station to pick up automobile and personal effects and travel back to permanent duty station. Claim may not be allowed since travel was not ordered or approved and must be considered personal. This action is in response to a requezt for an advance decision from D.E. Cox, an authorized certifying officer with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of ½' I FILE- ~C .2 4 K ~-1 I A I

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