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B-204864 1 (1982-03-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkdp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION' THU COMPTROLLER GNERAL OF THE UNITED3 STATIES WASHINOTONg D, o,9 10O40 B-204864 DATE: March 15, 1982 MATTER OF; DIGEiST: Staff Sergeant Kenneth IW. Brown, USA, Retired A retired Army member requested extension 62t time to nomplete travel 'Co his home of selec- tion, upon retir ment' over 2 years after. the initial--!-year period to ccmpletou the' travel had expired, The Arly denied the request for extension because the record did not fMeet the regulatory, requirements for an extension, Consequently, the member's claim for travel allowances, for himself and his dependents for travel performed 3 years after the member's retirement is denied. ,This action is in response to a requLst by Staff Sergeant Kenneth W. Brown, USA, Retired, for reconsider- ation of the disellowance of his claim for personal end dependent travel allowances to a home of seloction upon retirement from the Army9 Because the travel and trans- portation was not performed within 1 year of Sergeant Brown's retirement nor within a properly authorized addi- tional time period, his claim may not be allowed. Sergeant Brown was retired from'the4Army effective Julylv1977, at Fort Hood, Texas, -His 'etirement orders specifically stated that he was authorized 1 _year.-to complete selection of a home and travel inconnection with'his retirement, Apparently he iemained in:' the- Fort Hood area after retirement and did not seoikto use his home-of-selection-entitlement until June 198D when he submitted a request to the Army at Fort fHood fo'tah extensioh of the time period. He (as advised by letter dated July 30, 1980, that his request did not meet the regulatory-requirements for an extension, SubSequently, by letter dated August 14, 1980, he again requested an extension of time for travel to a home of seledtion, and he also submitted travel vouchers dated July 8, 1980, for both himself and his dependents' for travel from Killeen, Texas (Fort Hood), to Carmel, Indiana, performed in July 1980. At the Army's request he subse- quently submitted some documents indicating that he had been attending college in Texas after retirement, that he had been employed in Texas, and his statement that he had been ill in 1978. FILE:

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