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B-198237 1 (1980-05-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadigj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: t'-. -U DECISION FILE: B-198237 MATTER DIGEST: I 2j7LL~ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 L NITEV OF: Alex Zazow Attendant for Handicapped Employee- Travel Expensue o rme Change-of-Static- Employee who is handicapped by blindness and cannot travel alone claims travel expenses and per diem -entitlement for an attendant in connection with offi- cially approved permanent change of station. Trans- portation expenses and per diem expenses incurred by attendant to handicapped employee may be allowed as necessary to the conduct of official business and con- sistent with explicit congressional intent to employ the handicapped and prohibit discrimination based on physical handicap. Kenyon I. Dugger, Jr., an authorized certifying officer for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has requested a decision as to whether transportation and per diem expenses may be reimbursed for the services of an attendant accompanying Mr. Alex Zazow, a handicapped IRS employee, to his new post of duty and on a house-hunting trip. Mr. Zazow is blind and requires the assistance of a companion when traveling to an unfamiliar area. The report states that Mr. Zazow was authorized to effect a change in his post of duty from Baileys Crossroads, Virginia, to Denver, Colorado, under Form 4253, Authorization for Moving Expense, No. TPS-79-8, which provided for transportation to the new post of duty and also a house-hunting trip in connection with the official change of station. The authorization was for payment of these expenses to Mr. Zazow as a single employee. In August 1979, Mr. Zazow filed a travel voucher claiming reimburse- ment for travel expenses incurred in effecting his change of post of duty and for a house-hunting trip for both himself and the attendant who accompanied him. The IRS disallowed the expenses of the attendant because Mr. Zazow's relocation orders did not specify an attendant to accompany him, and IRS regulations only address payment of expenses for an attendant when accompanying a handicapped employee to and from temporary duty stations. In our decision in H. W. Schulz, B-187492, May 26, 1977, we allowed travel expenses incurred by an attendant for a handicapped consultant in connection with temporary duty travel. While noting that the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) (FPMR 101-7) (May 1973) &e3* 0 / )I ?wN I

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