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B-200479 1 (1981-04-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjhw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION .1 FILE: B-200479 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 DATE: April 16, 1981 MATTER OF: David V. Craig - Transportation of Household Effects - Commuted Rate DIGEST: Transferred employee was authorized reimbursement for shipment of household effects at commuted rate on an intrastate transfer. Employee's claim for charge by mover for expedited or special service which exceeds commuted rate may not be allowed. Under the commuted rate system there is no authority to pay transportation charges in excess of those provided under that system. Although actual expense method may be used in intrastate transfers where unusual hard- ship of employee may result, no administra- tive determination was made to authorize actual expense method. This action is in response to a request for a decision submitted by the certifying officer of the Central Region, Inte nal Revenue Service, Cincinnati, Ohio, regarding a claim for reimbursement of transpor- tation expenses for movement of household effects upon an intrastate transfer of an employee. The employee claims the additional amount by which the carrier's charges exceeded the employee's authorized reimburse- ment on a commuted rate. The employee paid the mover for expedited or special service which apparently caused his costs to exceed the reimbursement he received at the commuted rate. No administrative determination was made to authorize the shipment of the employee's goods by the Government under the actual expense method, and there is no authority to pay a transportation claim in excess of the allowable commuted rate when the commuted rate system is used. Therefore, there is no basis to pay the employee's claim. Mr. David V. Craig, an employee of the Internal Revenue Service, was officially authorized a change of duty assignment from Somerset, Kentucky, to Lexington, Kentucky. He was authorized to ship at the commuted rate and shipped 1,100 pounds of household effects. The commuted rate at the time of shipment was $22.25

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