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B-197830 1 (1980-04-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiet0001 and id is 1 raw text is: / 3(f q 5 ,- m2/Y- T FILE: B-197830 MATTER O DIGEST: TME COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DATE: April 22, 1960 F: Samuel S. Rey -.laim for Actual Subsistence Expensesfor Breakfasts and Coffee Breaks 1. An employee assigned to temporary duty and authorized reimbursement for actual subsistence expenses is ordinarily expected to eat breakfast at home on the day of departure from his residence. However, where the employee's departure is at such an early morning hour that it would be unreasonable to expect him to eat -breakfast at home, he may be reimbursed for a breakfast purchased away from his permanent duty station. - .2. Where employee is authorized actual subsistence incident to official travel, expenditures made by him for coffee during coffee breaks may not be reimbursed since such expenditures are not necessary expenses of subsistence. This action is in response to a request by Ms. Nedra A. Blackwell, an authorized certifying officer for the Department of the Interior, concerning the request for reimbursement of actual subsistence expenses of Samuel S. Rey. Mr. Rey requests reimbursement for $3 for breakfast on the day of departure and $1. 80 for coffee consumed on coffee breaks. As a general rule an employee assigned to temporary duty and authorized reimbursement for actual subsistence expenses is expected to eat breakfast at home on the day of departure from his residence. However, we have recently held that where the employee's departure is at such an early morning hour that it would be unreasonable to expect him to eat break- fast at home, he may be reimbursed for a breakfast purchased away from his permanent duty station. H. Curtiss Burrell, B-195940, December 26, 1979. The controlling consideration is the amount of time between the employee's departure and the lunch hour and it is up to the agency to decide whether eating breakfast at home is unreasonable under the circumstances.

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