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B-206546 1 (1984-04-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlpx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: e- %- THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OP THE UNITEO mTATEE dWASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-206546 DATE: April 3, 1984 MATTER OF: Constantine Bolaris - Per Diem Rate - Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses Mileage DIGEST: 1. Employee's claim for the higher per diem rate authorized on his travel orders is denied. Since the agency had established a lower rate, there is no authority for allowing reim- bursement based on the higher rate. 2. Employee was authorized 30 days Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expense (TQSE), less a househurkting trip of 6 days for him and his spouse. The claim of the employee's spouse for 6 days' househunting was paid and no claim for TQSE on her behalf was submitted. The agency deducted the 6 days' househunting paid on behalf of the employee's spouse from the employee's 30 days of TQSE and allowed him only 24 days of TQSE. Employee's claim for househunting was properly denied, since these are discretionary items and the agency interpretation of the regulations and travel orders is not unreasonable. 3. An employee who performs temporary duty travel during a period of TQSE may elect to receive a fractional per diem rate for fractional days of temporary duty travel and have the period of TQSE extended accordingly. 57 Comp. Gen. 700 (1978). 4. Where TQSE payments would not be duplicative of payments made for househunting trips, an employee may continue to receive TQSE while househunting since this could not be

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