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B-213925 1 (1984-05-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlrl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION OP THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-213925 DATE: May 8, 1984 MATTER OF: Master Gunnery Sergeant Edward W. Lord, USMC DIQEST: A service member was transferred from a permanent unaccompanied tour overseas to a temporary assignment for retirement pro- cessing at Kansas City, Missouri, which was also his ultimate home of selection. His family had maintained their residence in Kansas City during his unaccompanied tour prior to his transfer, and he lived at the family residence while awaiting retirement, commuting from there to his duty station. He was not entitled to per diem after his arrival at the temporary duty station, since in these circumstances it had the effective status of a permanent duty station. The question is whether a member of the uniformed ser- vices is entitled to receive per diem while he was assigned to a temporary duty station for retirement processing when the temporary duty station was also his home of selection and his permanent residence.1 Per diem is not payable when temporary duty is per- formed within the limits of the permanent duty station. When the temporary retirement processing duty station, permanent residence and ultimate home of selection are all in the same vicinity, the permanent residence has the effec- tive status of a permanent duty station and payment of per diem is precluded. Master Gunnery Sergeant Edward W. Lord, USMC, who was then stationed in Okinawa, Japan, received permanent change-of-station orders dated February 17, 1983, detaching him from his overseas station in June 1983 and transferring 1 This question was presented by the Disbursing Officer, Marine Corps Finance Center, Kansas City, Missouri, and forwarded to us by the Per Diem, Travel and Transporta- tion Allowance Committee, Alexandria, Virginia. The matter has been assigned PDTATAC Control No. 83-22. C)2%15Y4

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