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B-205112 1 (1982-02-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkbm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: /7 DECISION / DATE: )ebruary 9, 1.982 MATTER OF; John W, Blanton, Cr. - Temporary quarters DIGEST After 6 days in motel in area of new duty station employee rented apartment and remained there for 11 months until he moved into purchased home, Employee'a; claim for temporary quart, rs subsistence expenses for other than 6 days at motel is denied since record does not establish that employee's intent was to reside in apartment only tempora:cily. Indefinite intent to purchase home some time in future does not change character of prolonged occupancy of rented apartment from perma- nent to temporary. Mr. John W. Blanton, Jr,, appeals the Claims Group's denial of his claim for temporary quartors subsistence expenses (TQSE) and automobile shipping' expenses incident to a permanent change of station from the Netherlands to Peninsula, Ohio, We affirm the action of the Claims Group. The TQSE are denied since the record fails to establish that the quarters were temporary in nature. The automobile expenses are denied since the privately owned vehicle was shipped on a foreign flag vessel, Zn February of 1980, Mr. Blanton transferred from a position with the United States Army in the Netherlands to a position with the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, in Peninsula, Ohio. Mr. Blanton reported to his new duty station on February 24, 1980, From the day of reporting through February 29, 1980, he and his dependents stayed in a motel. On March 1, 1980, the claimant and his dependents moved into an apartJitent. They remained there until January 31, 1981, when they moved into a house the claimant purchased. When the claimant sought reimbursement of his TQSE from February 24 to April 24, 1980, he was only allowed his expenses while at the motel from February 24 to February 29, 1980. The Department of the Interior, with the concurrence of our Claims Group, denied his claim for expenses for the period ftom March 1 to 24, 1980, on the badis that the record fa.iled to establish that his resi- dence in the apartment ':as temporary in nature. His claim THE COMPTOLL GENERAL 01 THE UNITED ETATES WASlHINGTCIN, Do, RO3 48 FzlLr=,. B-205112

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