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B-203492 1 (1982-12-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkts0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE! COMPTROLI.ER GENIERAL DECISION ,OF THE UNITIM10 S1TATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 0 q54 FILE: B-203492 DATE: December 7, 1982 MATTER OF: John W. Corwine - Subsistence expenses at location subsequently made permanent duty station DIGEST: 1. An employee who received definite notice prior to reporting for temporary duty that his temporary duty station is to be his perma- nent station is considered to have been transferred, for travel and subsistence expense purposes, on the date he arrived at the new station. 2. An employee is not entitled to reimbursement of his spouse's house-hunting expenses where the record shows that spouse's travel to the new station, even though followed by a few days of house- hunting, was travel incident to a permanent change of station. Mr. Lorin D. Anderson, Chief, Division of Finance, U.S. Department of the Interiork Bureau of Mines, requests a decision on several vouchers submitted by John W. Corwine, an employee of the Bureau of Mines, claiming expenses for temporary duty at his subsequently-designated permanent duty station, the cost of round-trip house-hunting travel performed by his spouse, and expenses incurred in his family's relocation to the new station. Specifically, the agency asks us to determine the effective date of the employee's transfer for travel and subsisteice expense pur- poses, and to decide whether travel performed by the employ- ee's spouse is reimbursable as a house-hunting trip. We hold that the employee's transfer was effective on the date he arrived at the new station, and that he is not entitled to temporary duty expenses after that date. The employee may not be reimbursed house-hunting expenses for his spouse's travel to .:he new duty post, L Ince the trip was performed primarily to effect a transfer of station. On November 30, 1980, Mr. Corwine, employed as Research Director at the Spokane Research Center and headquartered in

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