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B-196471 1 (1980-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhxd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: o .THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATE9 WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 UNIT~/07 FILE: B-196471 MATTER DIGEST: DATE: January 16, 1980 OF: Jacques P. Evans Emp oyee claimskreimbursement Et real estate expenses incurred incident to sale of residence in Orlando, Florida, upon transfer from Fort Rucker, Alabama, to Palmdale, California. Employee commuted from a local residence daily to his duty station in Fort Rucker, Alabama, and traveled to family residence in Orlando, 373 miles away, on weekends and holidays. Employee is not entitled to reimbursement for real estate expenses in sale of residence in Orlando since Federal Travel Regulations require that residence be the one from which employee commutes regularly to and from work. Only exception to this requirement is when employee is assigned to remote area and Fort Rucker is not a remote area. The issue pres ted in this appeal from a settlement of our Claims Division k#whether an employee whose permanent duty station was Fort Rucker, Alabama, but who maintained a residence in Orlando, Florida, 373 miles away, to which he traveled on week- ends and holidays may be reimbursed expenses of sale of residence in Orlando upon transfer to Palmdale, California. The answer is no. 97a Jacques P. Evans, an employee of the Department of the Air Force with a permanent duty station at Fort Rucker, Alabama, was ordered to make a permanent change of station to Palmdale, California. While on duty at Fort Rucker he maintained a resi- dence in Orlando, Florida, 373 miles from Fort Rucker, where his wife resided, to which he traveled on weekends and holidays. Upon his transfer to Palmdale, he sold the residence in Orlando. Since the residence he sold was not located at his old official station (Fort Rucker) and was not the residence from which he commuted regularly to work, his claim for reimbursement of expenses incurred in connection with the sale of the residence in Orlando was denied. 1~J(o DECISION 4447 * 1i

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