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B-194127 1 (1979-08-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhms0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION- OF THE UN ITED STATES S: WASHINGTON, .C. 20548 FILE: B-194127 DATE: August 10, 1979 MATTER OF: John W. Brown - Immediate Family - Aunt DIGEST: Employee may not be reimbursed for relocation expenses of aunt who raised him since age 9 since he was never legally adopted by his aunt and, therefore, she is not within the definition of immediate family contained in FTR para. 2-4.1d (May 1, 1977). The term dependent parents as used in that regula- tion has reference only to dependent parents (including step- and legally adoptive parents) of the employee or his spouse. We have been asked by a certifying officer for the Department of the Interior to review Mr. John W. Brown's claim for reimbursement of relocation expenses incident to h4s trans- ferjin October 1978 from Basalt, Colorado, to Pendleton, Oregon, as an employee of the Bureau of Reclamation. Specifically, we are asked whether Mr. Brown, a single employee, may be reim- bursed transportation and travel expenses for his aunt and whether he may be reimbursed other relocation expenses as an employee with immediate family. As the certifying officer has pointed out, the employee's entitlement to the expenses claimed depends on whether his aunt is a member of his immediate family as that term is defined in para. 2-1.4d of the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) (FPMR Temporary Regulations A-11, Supp. 4) May 1, 1977. Insofar as pertinent, the term immediate family is defined as follows: (1) Any of the following named members of the employee's household at the time he reports for duty at his new permanent duty station * * * (c) Dependent parents (including step- and legally adoptive parents) of the employee or the employee's spouse (See (2), below, for dependent status criteria.) * * *.

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