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S p7 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON. D.C. 2O548
FILE: B-195609
DATE: December 5, 1979
MATTER OF: Gloria Dale Lewis -[Actual Subsistence
Expenses for Noncommercial Lodgings]
DIGEST: Employee who performed temporar d t e .
high-rate geographical areas may not be reimbursed
$34 and $25 amounts paid to friends for lodgings
in their homes or $16 paid for meals in friends'
homes. Amounts claimed, which appear to be
designed to assure employee's recovery at or near
the maximum rate of actual subsistence expenses
allowable, are unreasonable and are not supported
by\information to indicate that any portion of the
amounts claimed bearsany relation to additional
expenses incurred by the employee's hosts.
This decision is in response to a request by Dolores T.
Hodges, an authorized certifying officer for the Department of
Housing and Urban De elopment, airling with respect to the
per diem entitlement o\ Gloria Dale Lewis. Ms. Lewis has
submitted vouchers reclaiming the amounts of $82 and $304 paid
to friends for lodgings and meals while on temporary duty in
Seattle, Washington, and Washington, D.C., respectively. We
find that the amounts in question were properly disallowed by
the certifying officer as unreasonable and not supported by
adequate documentation.
While on temporary duty in Seattle, Ms. Lewis lodged in
the home of friends on May 4 and 5, 1979. She .has claimed $25
as a cost of lodgings for each of those 2 days, as well as $16
for meals paid to those friends on May 5 and 6, 1979. In
support of her claim, she has' submitted' a receipt for the total
of $82 signed by her hostess. During the period of her assign-
ment to Washington, D.C., she stayed in the home of a friend
from May 16 to 24, 1979. For that period she has reclaimed the,
amount of $34 per day as a cost of lodgings and has supported
that claim by the submission of a receipt for $304 from her
hostess.
The employee believes she is entitled to reimbursement for
the amounts paid to friends for lodgings and mealsobecause they
are reasonable in terms of the cost of commercial lodgings. She
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