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B-191706 1 (1978-06-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgct0001 and id is 1 raw text is: II q-s THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISIDl .rmr.) OF THE UNITED STATEB . P WASHINGTON. D. C. 20549 FILE; B-191705 DATE: Jwe 13, 1978 MATTER OF: Overseas Employees -- Meals and Lodging in Staff Houses or Private Quarters DIGEST: Employees on tempotary duty in foreign countries obtain lodging and meals in employee associatiun staff houses or in private quarters of fellow employees at reduced costs or at no cost. Although Government supplies furnishings to associations at no cost and fellow employees receive living quarters allowances and loans of household goods, the quarters are not Govern- ment-owned for purpose of reducing per diem. However, agencies should consider lodgings-plus system for per diem and meanwhile should reduce per diem to oniy approximate traveserls expenses. This decision is in response to the reouest from M. Douglas Stafford, Cmntroller, Agency for International Development (AID), ccncerning whether per diem should be reduced for employees who are on temporary duty in foreign countries and who receive meals and-lodging in staff houses (transient quarters) or in the private quarters of employees who are stationed overseas. The request from AID states that under its travel regu- lations, per diem is to Le reduced where meals or lodging are provided by the Government, and the agency questions whether meals or lodging which are provided in staff houses or private quarters should be considered to be Government- furnished meals and lodging. The agency questions whether staff houses which were initially operated by the agency and were turned over to an employee recreation association with the association assuming the lease liability or staff houses which were initiated by a recreation association constitute Government-furnished lodging where the furnitute and equipment have been loaned at no cost, rented, or granted to the recreation association by the agency. The letter from AID states that the recreation association sets the charges and wanaaus the finances of the staff houses without assisLance i to: the aency. and it appears that meals and lodging are offered to the Government traveler at greatly reduced cost. For example, we have been advised that the K ,.

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