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B-200082 1 (1981-02-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjdo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0A1XR r. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION .I'or n OF THE UNITED STATES W AS NT ON . .C. 205 4 FILE: B-200082 DATE: February 25, 19bl MATTER OF: Jon W. Cain - Temporary quarters expenses aClub membership fee required for residence purchase. DIGEST: 1. Employee is not entitled to temporary quarters subsistence expenses for period he occupied and rented house which he intended to purchase, but could not buy because he could not obtain financing. The house was his permanent residence as determined by his intent to purchase at the time he moved in. 2. Employee may not be reimbursed member- ship fee for home-owners' club re- quired upon purchase of home at new duty station. Such fees are personal and outside the scope of miscellaneous costs allowable under Part 2-3 of the Federal Travel Regulations. In this case we decide that the employee is entitled to neither temporary quarters subsistence expenses nor a membership fee for a social club he was required to pay upon purchase of a home at his new duty station. Mr. Jon W. Cain, an employee of the Internal Revenue Service, transferred from Parkersburg to Charleston, West, Virginia, where he reported for duty on December 3, 1979. He received temporary quarters allowance for staying in coimercial lodging between November 30, and December 2, 1979. However, on the following day, December 3, he moved into a house which he intended to purchase. He paid rent pending the closing of the sale. But since he was unable to obtain the necessary financing, he was forced to vacate the house as provided in the sales contract. The sale was never closed. On April 15, 1980, Mr. Cain purchased another residence in

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