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B-202104 1 (1981-07-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjnh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OECISION B-202104 MATTER OF: DIGEST: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20548 DATE: July 2, 1981 Secret Service agents' meal expenses while on 24-hour-a-day protective duty Secret Service agents who are required to purchase meals at high cost hotels or other facilities at their headquarters as a result of 24-hour-a-day protective duty assignments may not be paid a daily allowance to compensate for the added costs they incur, since such an allowance is prohibited by 5 U.S.C. 5536; further, such assignments do not normally involve extreme emergencies involving danger to human life so as to permit the Government to furnish the agents' meals from appro- priated funds under the rule in 53 Comp. Gen. 71 (1973). The Acting General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury has asked whether Secret Service agents, whose permanent duty station is in the city in which they are required to perform 24-hour-a-day protective assignments, may be paid a flat amount a day to compensate them in whole, or in part, for the extra costs they incur by being required to buy the meals in the same hotels or facilities as the persons whom they are protecting. The issue in this case is whether there should be an exception, because of the unusual working conditions associated with 24-hour-a-day protective service, to the general rule prohibiting any payment of appropriated funds for a civilian employee's meals while he is working at his permanent duty station. There may be no exception to the general rule that meals at headquarters may not be paid for from appropriated funds in the circumstances here involved. The persons subject to the Secret Service agents' protection frequently are accommodated in superior hotels. Since the agents are required to be in the immediate proximity, they are, according to the submission, * * * compelled to incur out of pocket costs for meals signifi- cantly in excess of what they would incur if permitted to eat at their homes or elsewhere at their discretion. Often they incur costs in excess of those they would incur were they merely government employees traveling on government business. ; .. r o £C,_ jf c// FILE: A / J P/- 111 er /

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