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B-199304 1 (1981-03-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjgp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 1, r THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OFECSON ..OF THE UNITED STATES 0. WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-199304 DATE: arh 1 2981. MATTER OF: Willard L. Steenhout e oc tion Expenses - House Sale - Collatera' Transaction .1 DIGEST: Transferred employee's costs of assuming loan on house located at old duty station, accepted as partial payment for his own residence from buyers unable to obtain sufficient financing, may not be reimbursed. Under FTR, reimbursement is authorized only for expenses associated with one piece of real estate at old and new duty stations, and is not authorized for unusual expenses incurred by an employee due to difficulties involved in his real estate transaction. his decision is in response to a request for an ad- vance ecision from Mr. H. Larry Jordan, an authorized certifying officer with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Mr. Jordan has asked whether he should certify for payment a voucher submitted by Mr. Willard L. Steenhout, an employee of the Forest Ser- vice. Mr. Steenhout, who was transferred from Baker, Oregon, to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in September 1979, is claiming certain expenses he incurred in assuming the outstanding mortgage on a home in Baker he took as partial payment from the buyers of his former home. Specifically-, he is requesting reimbursement of Sq8 he paid as are crow fee, $3,50 for recording the deed and $12.01 fo -a(credit report. Mr. Steenhout's claim was denied by officials at the Wall wa - Whitman National Forest in Baker, Oregon, on the basis of paragraph 2-6.1 of the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) which authorizes reimbursement for the expenses re- quired ,to be paid by an employee in connection with the sale of one residence at his old official station and for the purchase of one dwelling at his new official station In a subsequent denial from the USDA National Finance Cen- ter, reference was made to 48 Comp. Gen. 419 (1968) which involved an employee's claim for reimbursement of the ex- penses of selling a parcel of land he had accepted in partial payment for his residence at his old duty station. We denied that claim because the expenses were not connected

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