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B-196689 1 (1979-12-13)

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FILE:   B-196689                     DATE:  Deceml

MATTER OF: Wayne E. Webb -       eal estate expens
                Loan origination fee

DIGEST: Federal employee upon transfer   paid 1 p
           the amount of a loan on purchase of res
           a loan origination fee. Reimbursement
           origination fee is not authorized under
           Travel Regulations, para. 2-6.2d (May 1
           since such fee is a finance charge wi
           definition of that term in section 106(
           Truth in Lending Act.

     The issue presented in this appeal from a set
Claims Division is whether a loan origination fee
employee to secure a mortgage for purchase of a re
transfer may be reimbursed as a real estate expens
5724a (1976).  The answer is no.

     Mr. Wayne E. Webb, an employee of the Geologi
Department of the Interior, paid a loan originatia
purchase of a residence in Reston, Virginia. The
residence was in connection with an official trans
The loan origination Lee of $495 represented 1 per
principal amount of his $49,500 mortgage loan.


     Mr. Webb argues that the loan initiation fee
he incurred which was required in order for him t(
purchase a house and, therefore, it should be reir
points out that a mortgage prepayment penalty inci
a house at the old residence is reimbursable. He
the origination fee and prepayment penalty are bol
mortgage company and he believes both should be ti

     Authority to reimburse a Government employee
considered necessary and appropriate for all oi
the expenses incurred in connection with the purcl
residence upon official transfer of station is foi
tion 5724a of title-5 of the United States Code (-
to prescribe regulations implementing the above si
to the President.  The President delegated his fu
statute to the Administrator of the General Servic
tion(GSA) by Executive Order No. 11609, July 22,


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