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B-204480 1 (1982-06-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkji0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE; B-204480 •I' Tl--V! s Vl - 1P T fl El t, L till n THF0s. LOFPTI,WR VWA 3 HI 0 TO N DATE; June, El, 9 8, El TAT U S c * 201.340 1982 MATTER OF: Carickd A. Smith - Real Essate Expenses Incide,,t to Transfer DIGN STAn employee sold he r residehceat her old duty station prior to the issuance of written travel ordecs., The employee's claim may be allowed since the record shows that there was a previously existing administra- tivg intention to transfer the em- ployee evident at the time the real estate expenses were incurred, 1ena Mt Jones, an authorized certifying officer of the Department of Housing and Urban Developmpent (IUD), Wahinj'ton, D.OC., requests an advanct, decision concerning payments on a voucher in the amount of q4,570,60, submitt'd by Ms. Caridad A. Smith, a HUD employbe. The issue we a'ci presented concerns reimbursement of relocatio, expenses 'n- curred in the sale of a residence at an employee's old duty station prior to the issuance of written travel orders. We hold that the real estate expenses clairnd by Ms Smith are relimbursable since the record shows that the agency intended to transfer the employee from San Francisco, California, to Anchorage, Alasla, at the time the expenses were incurred, Ms. Smith was stationed at the San i.rancisco, California, Area Offj.ice of HUD. On February 9, 1981, the manager of HUD's Anchorage Area Office contacted Ms. Smith by telephone to inform her that she had been selected for a position in the Anchorage office. At that time, he informed Hs. Smith that a hiring freeze was in effect and therefore a formal affer could not be made until a waiver of the hiring restrictions was requested and approved. On February 15, 1981, Ms. Smith put her house up for sale. The agency report3 a series of conversations between Ms. Smith and HUD perionnel oncerning her impending trans- fer. On March 20, 1981, is. Zmith contacted a des); of- ficer at the Anchorage office, inquirIng whether the waiver had been granted, and stating that she had found a buyar $9 9 **....9 5*~~- J9- 56 ~ 6 9~*.6S ~ I. dqj*.....* S. .. ~.. *. . .........5P.. ~.s. 't......-~ rq$.t-$..q;q..4, *r-4 *..' 999r0'--- -R IF r, . I - flU e*p9n.U.~t. 9 9-* b' .iW US. ~ 1' %E *~.sI. .5 - -

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