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B-211449 1 (1983-07-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadleo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES ASHINGTON. .C. 20548 FILE: B-211449 DATE: July 11, 1983 MATTER OF: Kenneth J. Bray - Reimbursement of Relocation Expenses - Violation of Service Agreement DIGEST: Employee accepted a transfer from Los Angeles, California, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and signed the required 12-month service agreement. He resigned after 5 months and is therefore obligat- ed to reimburse the Government for his relocation expenses. The fact that the employee had previously transferred from Cambridge to Los Angeles in a position which gave him transfer of function rights back to Cambridge did not in itself entitle him to perform the return travel to Cambridge at the Government's expense. An employee is required to sign and fulfill the terms of a new service agreement in connection with each permanent change of station within the continental United States. See paragraph 2-1.5a(l)(a) of the FTR. The issue in this decision is whether a transferred employee who did not complete the required term of Govern- ment service at his new duty station is entitled to reloca- tion expenses incident to his transfer. We hold that the employee is not entitled to relocation expenses since he violated his service agreement for personal reasons which were not beyond his control and which were not acceptable to the agency. Therefore, the Government is entitled to seek recovery of any funds it has expended for the employee's travel, transportation and allowances in connection with his transfer. This decision is in response to a request from Mr. Richard A. Keene, Chief of the Accounting Branch at the Department of Transportation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, concerning the claim or Mr. Kenneth J. Bray for travel and transportation expenses incident to his transfer. Mr. Bray, a former employee of the Transportation Systems Center (TSC), United States Department of Transportation, was transferred in June 1978 from TSC's main office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to a regional office in

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