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CATEprt] 24, 1978
MATTER OF; Lawrence Lindner- Dependents -
Child born after employee reports to
new duty station
DIGEST: Wife of transferred employee could not
travel with him to new duty station due
to pregnancy. Ripjoyee therefore reported
for duty.-.at-3waLtwstaeion before child was
born. Travel expenses for infant's travel
to new station may not be paid because infant
was not member of employee's immediate
family within meaning of PTR para. 2-X.4d.
However, GAO favors change in regulation
to authorize travel costs of infant born
after employee reports to new station if
wife'a prior travel iR precluded by
pregnancy.
By a letter dated February 2, 1978. Mr. H. Larry
Jordan, an authorized certifying officer in the Depart-'
ment of Agriculture, ecuested our decision concerning
a voucher aubmitted by Mr. Lawrence Lindner for additional
travel exoenses for his family incident to a permanent
change of ctation.
The record indicates that by a travel authoization
dated March 18, 1976, Mr. Lindner, an employee of the
Depatment of Agriculture, was ordered to transfer from
Encampment, Wyoming, to Grangeville, Idaho. Thn travel
order authorized travel expenses for Mr. Lindner and his
wife. Mr. Lindner reported for duty at his new
official station in April 1976. His wife, however, did
not accompany him to the new station at that time because
sha was then pregnant ;nd unable to travel. A statement
in the record signed by Robert M. Shine, M.D. on
November 16, 1:4i76, indicates that Mrs. Linnder had deep
vein pulmonary thrombosis prior to her pregnancy-and during
her pregnancy was on Heparin therapy daily. It was not
possible for her to travel during her pregnancy and could
not move to Idaho untSl after she delivered. On May 20,
1976, Mr. Lindner's travel orders were amended to read
.Famixy consists of self, wife-Becky, and to include cne
infanc (unborn at the time authorization written). The
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