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B-208817 1 (1983-01-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkvf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION . FILE: B-208817 MATTER OF: L E DIGEST: THE COMPTROLLER OENERAL ... OF THE UNITED STATES WASH(NGTON, D. C. 2-054B DATE: January 18, 1983 awrence F. Miller - Real Estate xpenses - Payment Requirement Employee of Department of Housing and Urban Development who transferred from Kansas City, Missouri, to Washington, D.C., seeks reimbursement of real estate expenses incurred in sale of residence at old duty sta- tion. Expenses claimed were paid by wife's employer. Since the claimed expenses were actually paid by a third party, not by the transferred employee, no entitlement to reim- bursement exists under para. 2-6.1f of Federal Travel Regulations. Mr. Lawrence F. Miller, an employee of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has appealed the action of our Claims Group which by Settlement Certificate Z-2834146 dated July 2, 1982, disallowed his claim for real estate expenses incident to his change of official duty station from Kansas City, Missouri, to Washington, D.C.,in June 1980. For the following reasons we sustain the denial of Mr. Miller's claim by the Claims Group. The pertinent facts and circumstances involved in this claim are as follows: Pursuant to Mr. Miller's transfer to Washington, D.C., which was initiated by HUD, he incurred expenses in the sale of his residence in Kansas City which totaled $9,256. These are the expenses now being claimed. After Mr. Miller relocated to the Washington area, his wife sought and obtained employment with a private corpora- tion. It is reported that Mrs. Miller was informed by her employer that she would not be reimbursed for the real estate expenses incurred in selling their house in Kansas City. However, upon her successfully attaining stature within her company, her employer paid the expenses for which Mr. Miller now seeks reimbursement. The statutory authority for reimbursing a Federal employee for expenses incurred in the sale and purchase of residences at his old and new duty stations is contained in

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