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B-221133 1 (1986-04-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmgy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: T , THE COMPTROLLER GEN L O CISION OP THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-221133 DATE: April 15, 1986 MATTER OF: Department of Defense Military Pay and Allowance Committee Action Number 559 DIGEST: Travel allowances payable in advance to enlisted service members at the time of their final discharge for their subsequent personal travel home may not properly be subjected to offset on account of their debts to the Government, since it has long been recognized as a matter of public policy that it is impermissible to dis- charge enlisted seice members at their last post of duty wTEhout the means of returning home. This policy has no appli- cation to former enlisted members who have completed their separation travel, how- ever, and travel allowances remaining due to them after they have returned home may be withheld and applied against their debts.' The question presented in this matter is whether-- In the case of an enlisted military member being separated from the Service while indebted to the United States, may an admin- istrative offset from final pay include pay- ments for the member's separation travel due after completion of travel?1/ We conclude that separation travel allowances which remain due to the former enlisted members, after they have been discharged and have completed their travel home from their last duty station, may properly be withheld and applied toward the satisfaction of their debts. This, however, 1/ This question was submitted by the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). The circumstances giving rise to the question are described in Department of Defense Military Pay and Allowance Committee Action Number 559, which was forwarded with the request for a decision.

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