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THE CC3MPTNOLLER GENERAlL
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DATE: July 18, 1978
James K. Gibbs - Reconsideration - Per Diem -
Lodgings-Plus Method - Determining Average Cosc
(1) Employee on extended TDY rented apartment
by the week but occupied it only 5 nights
because he voluntarily returned home week-
ends. Average daily cost of lodgings is
determined by prorating rent over 7 days
rather than 5. Otherwise not only per diem
for days occupied but weekend travel al-
lowance would be increased and employee
would recive higher per diem thin another
emplnyce similarly lodged who remained at
the iDY site.
(2) Employee on TDY rented apartment by the
week and included expenses for utilities
and incidental expenses and linen service,
maid service, etc. in addition to weekly
rental in total cost of lodgings, Agency
requested receipts for these additiuval
expenses but none were furnished. CLaimed
additional expenses may not be included.
Regulations permit agency to require receipts
and provide that trems in travel vouchers not
properly supported by receipts when required
must be suspended.
Mr. Jamns K. Gibbs has requested further consideration of the
method used to compute his average coat of lodgings in 54 Comp.
Gen. 299 (1974) which was affirmed in M1'tter of James K. Gibbs
B-180910, July 6, 1976. Those decisions sustained Certificate of
Settlement No. Z-2509080, issued Decembei 18, 1973, by our Claims
Division which disallowed his claim for e.dditional per diem and
found him indebted to the Government for an overpayment of this
allowance in the amount of $72.10.
Mr. Gibbs, a civilian employee of the Department of the Army
whose permanent duty station was Huntsville, Alabama, performed
temporary duty (TDY).at Fort Benning, Georgia, from January 22,
1973, thtcugh March 30, 1973, under a travel order authorizing
per diem computed by the lodgings-plus method. He returned home
voluntarily for personal reasons on each of the intervening
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