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B-207447 1 (1983-06-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadldz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -~O~E~ lV 7 THE COMPTROLLER GENERALr* *P I CIECISION < OF THE UNITIE STATE8 U WASHINGTON. . .C. 20548 FILE: B-207447 DATE:Juue 30, 1983 MATTER OF: William T. Burke DIGEST: 1. Employees temporarily assigned to State or local governments under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act are entitled to either per diem or change- of-station allowances but not both. The agency should determine, taking cost to the Government into considera- tion, whether to authorize permanent change-of-station allowances or per diem in lieu of subsistence. Agency should also recognize that ordinarily for assignments of 2 years, per diem would be inappropriate. A 2. Travel advances are in the nature of a loan given to an employee and should only be given when clearly necessary. Also, travel advances should be held to the minimum amount necessary which generally will be an amount to cover a time period before a voucher can be prepared by the traveler and processed by the agency. A $28,500 advance given an employee to cover his estimated per diem for a 1-1/2-year period is clearly beyond the contemplation of the statute and regula- tions authorizing travel advances. 3. An employee on a 2-year Intergovernmental Act assignment was given an advance of $28,500 based on 1-1/2 years' per diem at the maximum rate which clearly was not in accord with iegulations governing travel advances or the computation of per diem for extended periods of duty. Since it appears that he should have been given change-of-station allowances rather than per diem, and since in other respects he and the agency contemplated that his assignment would be a relocation, includ- ing purchase of a home suitable for I.L el f, nc : e a_... . z, . , : - 0j

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