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B-193401 1 (1981-05-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjiu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i7q57 a 1.. 1 DECISION THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-193401 DATE: May 5, 1981 MATTER OF: Joanne E. Johnson -LSubsistence Alowane Temporary Duty Station 1. New employee was assigned to tem- porary duty in Washington, D.C., area prior to reporting to first duty station overseas. Because employee commuted from permanent residence to training sites agency questions employee's entitlement to subsistence. Decisions of this Office and of the courts hold that employee is not entitled to per diem or subsistence allowance where he/she commutes to temporary duty station from permanent residence and incurs no additional expense. 2. Agency questions whether new appoin- tees who are assigned to Washington, D.C., area for temporary duty prior to reporting to overseas duty station are entitled to subsistence allowance. Both new hires and transferees may be authorized subsistence at Washington, D.C., since, under the circumstances presented, it is a training or tem- porary duty site, not a permanent duty station, and the employee would un- doubtedly incur additional expenses. Thomas C. Roberts, Chief, Financial Policy and Ac- counting Division, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), requests our decision on the entitlement of Joanne E. Johnson, to per diem or actual expense allowance. Mr. Roberts' request results from a prior decision of this Office Joanne E. Johnson, B-193401, May 17, 1979, which held that an employee was entitled to a trans- portation allowance between her residence in Annandale, - P~ DIGEST:

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