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B-209342 1 (1984-10-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlys0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4- THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL 15- O ICISION OP THE UNITEO STATES WASH IN GTON. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-209342 DATE: October 10, 1984 MATTER OF: Multinational Force and Observers - Basic Allowance for Quarters- DIGEST: 1. Army members without dependents are not entitled to a basic allowance for quarters during 6-month periods when they are assigned on a rotating basis from the United States to peacekeeping duty with the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. During those 6-month periods they are furnished with Government quarters in the Sinai, and they are eligible to store their household goods in the United States at Govern- ment expense. They are on field duty in the Sinai within any accept- able meaning or definition of that term. The applicable statutes and regulations preclude payment of a quarters allowance to service members on field duty in those circumstances. Captain John A. Davis, USA, B-209342, June 1, 1983, affirmed. 2. In June 1983 the Comptroller General decided that Army members without dependents on 6-month periods of field duty with the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Peninsula were not entitled to a basic allowance for quarters under the terms of the statute governing payment of the allowance. This decision involved an original construction of the statute, so that it is not limited to prospec- tive application only but instead applies to all Army members who have served with the Multinational Force beginning in February 1982. Those who received erroneous overpayments of the allowance are, however, eligible to apply for a waiver of their refund obligations on an individual basis if they have reason to believe that collection action would be inequitable. O3O~3

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