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B-192364 1 (1979-02-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgyh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CECISION FILE: B-192364 MATTER DIGEST: I DATE: February 15, 1979 O=: Lawrence B. Perkins -.Expenses Necessary to Obtain Reduced Travel Fare 1. Civilian employee completed temporary dty late Friday evening, but delayed.depdit-ure until Sunday in order to qualify for reduced vacation air fare. The claim for 1 additonal day's per diem may be allowed since there is an overall 'savings to the Government and employee acted in a prudent manner in scheduling his departure date. See Comp. Gen. decisions cited. 2. Civilian employee delayed departure 1;:day in order to qutalify.for reduced vacationair fare, and retainedGSA rental car for thatay. There is no authority t&'permit reimursement fb the cost of car rental for a peribd in- which no official business is performed, u employee may be reimbursed for the constructive cost of allcwable local transportation, not tQ exceed the cost of car rental for 1 day. Thi actionconcerns the requzest of W. Smallets, Chief, Financ andAccounting, National Security Agency, for an advance decision concerning the claim of Mr. Lawrence B. Perkins, a civilian employee of the Department of Defense,.for per diem and the cokC-of a rental car for 1 day, both of which were claimed as expeases necessary to obtain a reduced air fare for travel incident to a temporary duty assignment. The request was forwarded here by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee. ,Mr. Perkins was permanently stationed i-n Sunnyvale, California, and aossigned t emprary duty at Fort Meade, Maryland,for the an d ane t-10, ',1 .Teaaryno perihd March 5-10,1978. The.agency report states that he completed his tempoiary duty late Friday evening, March 10,. and-normally would have been entitled to be paid per diem and travel costs ihcident to return to his permanent d'uty station on Saturday. Instead of returning on Saturday, however, Mr. Perkins delayed his departure until Sunday, March 12, in order to qualify for the vacation air fare. Normal fare would have been $424; vacation fare was $339--a savings of $85. Because of his delayed departure, Mr. Perkins submitted a supplemental claim of $35 for 1 day's per diem and $17 for the .4 I 3 ',MTHE COMPTROLLER GE PAL . THE.). UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 2054F

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