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B-209002 1 (1983-03-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkxd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION F. oF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-209002 DATE: March 1, 1983 MATTER OF: Robert L. Rogers - Relocation Allowances - Wife as Member of Employee's Household DIGEST: For 2 years, an employee and his wife maintained separate residences out of occupational necessity. Because the separation was not due to the disso- lution of the marriage and because the parties have reestablished a common household at the employee's new permanent duty station, the wife should be considered a member of the employee's household at the time of his transfer. Thus, he is eligible to receive relocation allowances for expenses incurred by his wife when she joined him at his permanent duty station. This decision is in response to a request for an advance decision from Dan Polley, a certifying officer of the General Services Administration (GSA), Region 4, concerning a claim for relocation allow- ances from a GSA employee, Robert L. Rogers. The issue for determination is whether an agency is obli- gated to reimburse an employee for his wife's reloca- tion expenses where, as of the date of the employee's transfer, the couple had been residing separately in different cities for over 2 years. We hold that, since separate residences were maintained out of occupational necessity rather than a mutual desire to remain apart, the agency is obligated to reimburse the employee for his wife's relocation expenses. In August 1979, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers moved to Voorhees, New Jersey. At that point, they were both employed by GSA with an official duty station of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Rogers' soon found that they were not pleased with their new location and planned to seek positions in the Washington, D.C., area.

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