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B-220197 1 (1986-01-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmdt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (.1 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECII1ON . OP THE UNITED GTATED 4WA8HINGTON. 0. C. 20543 FILE: B-220197 DATE: January 24, 1986 MATTER OF: Michael Longo, M.D. DIGEST: 1. There is no indication in the statutes or regulations governing the relocation of Federal appointees of any intent to deprive reimbursement of expenses incurred in undertaking an authorized move that is interrupted by the appointee's death, and those expenses are allowable to the extent that they do not exceed the reimbursement that would have been payable if the appointee had not died. Hence, reimbursement may be allowed for the expenses of a household goods shipment initiated by a physician newly appointed to a position with the Veterans Administration in furtherance of an authorized move, notwithstanding that he died while the goods were in transit, and the shipment was then recalled. 2. A person newly appointed to the Federal service who has not yet entered on duty does not have the status of a Federal employee. Consequently, relocation allowances credited to the account of a deceased Veterans Administration appointee are payable to his estate in the manner prescribed for deceased public creditors generally, and may not instead be paid directly to his survivors in the manner otherwise specifically prescribed by statute for settling the accounts of deceased employees. The question presented here is whether payment may be allowed in the case of a physician newly appointed to a position in the Federal service for expenses incurred in undertaking an authorized household goods shipment that was

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