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B-186784 1 (1981-11-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjwq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: VP20 //b'? THI 3CMPTNCLLER UFEflAnL OF THE UNITIE ISTATIES WAS5HING I3T ON, DoC, RM05 43 FILE: B-18678 MATTER OF: DIGEBT: 14 DATE: lovember 24, 1981 Sergeant First Class IBerman Me Alfred USA, Retired An Armyumember lived in motel during a pertod of overseas assignment and received temporary lodging allowances (TLA) for 110 days following his initial arrival at this duty station, Upon recon- sideration, GAO affirms the dental of his claim for TLA for the remainder of the period of his overseas assignment absent a dotermlnaion by the overseas commander that additional TLA was necessary. A request by a company commander for payment to the member is not the required determination by the overseas commander, This action is in response to a letter from C, Brent Coreil, Lesq, attorney for Sergeant First Class Herman M. Alfred, USA, Retired, requesting reconsideratibn of our decision B-186784, February 14, 1977. In that decision, we determined that Sergeant Alred wan not entitled to additional temporary lodging allowance, absent a deter- mination by the overseas commander that the additional allowance was necessary. For the reasons stated below, we affirm our earlier decision. The facts are fully stated in our decision of Febru- ary 14, 1977, and are only briefly restated here. During his overseas assignment, Sergeant Alfred lived ih motels in the communities of Nainz and Finthen, West Germany, from August 27, 1973, to September 17, 1974. The Army paid him temporary lodging allowance for the period August 27 to December 17, 1973 (110 days), but denied it for the period December 18, 1973, to September 17, 1974. Subsequently, the disallowed portion of Sergeat Alfred's claim was forwarded to our Claims Division and was denied in the settlement issued November 6, 1975. In our February 14, 1977 the Claims Division's action temporary lodging allowance I decision we concurred with disallowing the claim since s not authorized in the absence N clj.sb

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