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B-214255 1 (1984-07-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlvf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER IIIEINERAL ActJ- OUCISION OP THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 29040 FILE: B-214255 OATE: July 30, 1984 MATTER OF: Lawrence R. Lyons -- Relocation Expenses Loan Assumption Fee DIGEST: Employee transferred to a new duty station effective July 5, 1983, and, upon purchas- ing a residence, he incurred a loan assump- tion fee. Paragraph 2-6.2d(l) of the Federal Travel Regulations, as amended effective October 1, 1982, permits reim- bursement of loan origination fee and simi- lar fees and charges, but not items which are considered to be finance charges. Loan assumption fee may be reimbursed where it is assessed instead of a loan origination fee, and involves charges for services sim- ilar to those covered by a loan origination fee. ISSUE The issue in this decision involves the claim of an employee for reimbursement of a loan assumption fee which he paid in connection with a transfer to a new duty station. Since the Federal Travel Regulations now permit reimbursement of loan origination fees and other fees or charges that are similar in nature, we hold that the employee may be reimbursed for a loan assumption fee which was similar in nature to and was charged instead of a loan origination fee. BACKGROUND This decision is in response to a request from Walter H. Parker, Jr., a certifying officer with the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, National Aeronau- tics and Space Administration (NASA), concerning the claim of Mr. Lawrence R. Lyons, a NASA employee. Mr. Lyons was transferred from Boulder, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama, effective July 5, 1983. In connection with the transfer he purchased a residence in Huntsville on July 1, 1983. Mr. Lyons assumed the existing mortgage of $149,754.46 on the residence, and he was charged an

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