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B-195644 1 (1980-08-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadimx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COIPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0 C. 20548 FILE: B-19564 MATTER OF: DIGEST: 4 DATE: August 22, 1980 E. Breland Collier -[Travel expenses of attendan for transferred handicapped employee Blind employee of Internal Revenue Service who was transferred from Jackson, Mississippi, to Atlanta, Georgia, claims travel expenses of attendant who accompanied him and his wife, who is also blind, on househunting trip and on permanent change of station travel. Travel expenses of attendant may be paid as necessary expenses of employee's travel since such payment is consis- tent with explicit congressional intent to employ the handicapped and prohibit discrimination based on physical handicap. H. W. Schulz, B-187492, May 26, 1977; John F. Collins, 56 Comp. Gen. 661 (1977). Mr. C. J. Pellon, Chief of the Accounting Section, ( Southeast Region..Internal Pev-nnP Service, requests an advance decision.concerning the propriety of paying the travel expenses of an attendant who accompanied a handi- capped employee on a househunting trip and on a permanent change of station move. Both Mr. E. Breland Collier, the employee in question, and his wife are blind. In connection with his transfer from Jackson, Mississippi, to Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Collier was authorized travel expenses for an attendant. The attendant, who was.not a Govern- ment employee, drove the Colliers to Atlanta on both the househunting trip and the permanent change of sta- tion move. For the househunting trip Mr. Collier is now claiming per diem for the attendant at three-fourths of the rate to which he is entitled. That rate is the allowance prescribed for a spouse accompanying an em- ployee on a househunting trip under paragraphs 2-4.3b and 2-2.2b(l)(a) of the Federal Travel Regulations (FPMR-101-7 (1973)). He is also claiming a per diem 1131,13 ~J1744L

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