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B-214881 1 (1984-05-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlru0001 and id is 1 raw text is: cTi-m: TU COMPTROLLER GENERAL OmCISION OP THU UNITEO STATES WASINGTON. 0.0. 20548 FILE: B-214881 OATE: May 15, 198& MATTER OF: Carol B. McKenna DIQEST: Employee who transferred to a position having the same title, grade, and promo- tion potential is not entitled to moving expenses since the employing agency properly determined that she transferred for her own benefit and not primarily in the interest of the Government. This action is in response to a request for an advance decision concerning the relocation expense claim of Mrs. Carol B. McKenna, an employee of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Asheville, North Carolina.1 We find that Mrs. McKenna's claim may not be paid, since the relocation expenses were incurred in connec- tion with a transfer which was properly determined to be primarily for her benefit. Prior to being transferred to the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station at Asheville, Mrs. McKenna was employed as a voucher examiner, grade GS-540-4, with the Forest Service at Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, Russellville, Arkansas. In October 1983 Mrs. McKenna learned of a posi- tion as voucher examiner, GS-540-3/4, at the Asheville station, for which a vacancy announcement under the Merit Promotion Program had been issued on August 31, 1983. (The closing date of that announcement was September 21, 1983, but the position remained open through October 1983.) Mrs. McKenna was interested in being reassigned to the Asheville station, in part, because her husband had recently accepted employment in Asheville, and she planned to accom- pany him there. She applied for and was offered the voucher examiner position at grade GS-4. Mrs. McKenna accepted the lateral reassignment, although she was informed prior to November 13, 1983, the effective date of reassignment, that relocation expenses were not authorized in connection with her transfer because 1 This request for advance decision was submitted by Mr. C. E. Tipton, Certifying Officer, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

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