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B-210305 1 (1983-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlgw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: B-210305 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DATE: August 24, 1933 Robert T. Bolton - Subsistence expenses incident to transfer DIGEST: 1. Employee who performed travel incident to transfer of duty station was delayed by breakdown of mobile home in which he and his family were traveling. On basis of such delay, he claimed temporary quarters expenses for a 6-day period during which the mobile home was being repaired. Temporary quarters expenses may not be paid since, for the period of actual travel en route to the new station, the employee's rights are limited by 5 U.S.C. S 5724a to an appropriate per diem allow- ance rather than temporary quarters expenses. 2. Employee's entitlement to travel expenses en route to new station is generally limited to per diem for number of days authorized for travel. However, when employee is delayed en route for reasons acceptable to agency, per diem may be allowed for period of delay. Since employee here was delayed ty breakdown of his mobile home residence, he would have had to occupy temporary quarters, pending completion of repairs, even if he had proceeded directly to his new station. Under these circumstances, employee's per diem expenses may be allowed. The question presented is whether an employee who was delayed en route to his new duty station by the breakdown of his mobile home is entitled to temporary quarters expenses for the period of the delay. We hold that the employee may not be reimbursed for temporary quarters expenses since, for actual travel en route to a new duty station, an employee's rights are limited to an appropriate per diem allowance rather than temporary quarters expenses. However, where the agency determines that an employee was delayed en route for reasons beyond his control or otherwise acceptable to the agency, the employee may be reimbursed for per diem expenses for the period of the delay en route. Since the employee in this case was delayed by the breakdown of the mobile home in / -7, ; -, - I DECISION FILE: MATTER OF: 2011

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