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B-192146 1 (1979-03-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgzw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COIVPTROLLER GENVERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D. C. 20548 FILE: B-192146 DATE: March 15, 1979 MATTER C1 i: Walter A. Dickerson, Sr. Claimn for Relocation Ex DIGEST: 1. Employee who has incurred reimbursable relocation expenses upon reporting for duty at new duty station pursuant valid travel orders may be reimbursed alloyable relocation expenses, even though a pending request for reassignment was later denied. Travel orders usually constitute the authorization of a transfer and, generally, a transfer is effective on date employee reports for duty at new duty station. Employee may also be reimbursed for expenses incurred incident to retransfer to former duty station where employee has signed service agreement and such expenses are post approved. See Comp. Gen. decs. cited. 2. Employee who received payment of actual subsistence expenses while at new duty station to which he had been transferred is not entitled to such payment. Generally, there is no authority to allow per diem or subsistence expenses at an employee's official duty station. This action is in response to a equest dated June 6, 1978, from Mr. H. Larry Jordan, an authorized certifying officer of the Department of Agriculture, for a decision on a voucher submitted by Mr. Walter A. Dickerson Sr., an employee of the Department of Agriculture, for relocation expenses incurred incident to a transfer from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Washington, D.C., which was later cancelled. By travel authorization no. 93-78-04, dated October 11, 1977, Mr. Dickerson was authorized travel and relocation expenses on or about November 6, 1977, in connection with his transfer from the Department of Agriculture, National Finance Center in New Orleans to the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) in Washington, D.C. On that same date the Acting Director, Technical Services Staff, ASCS, submitted a Request for Personnel Action (SF-52), to the Office of Personnel for official approval of the reassignment to Washington, D.C. Mr. Dickerson traveled by privately owned automobile and arrived in Washington on November 7, 1977, and he reported for duty at the ASCS office on the following day. The agency has advised us that it believes

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