About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-221675 1 (1986-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmjf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D. C. 2054B FILE: B-221675 DATE: July 7, 1986 MATTER OF: Debra R. Hammond - Relocation Expense Entitlements DIGEST: 1. An employee, transferred from Pullman, Washington, to Fairbanks, Alaska, was authorized to ship a privately owned vehicle (POV). The agency disallowed the POV claim based on the rationale that the employee and her family used another POV as their approved mode of relocation travel, and thus exhausted their rights under 5 U.S.C. S 5727, which precludes the shipment of more than one POV. On appeal, the claim is allowed. Relocation travel and POV shipment entitlements are separate and distinct statutory rights. The use of a POV as an approved mode of travel, in lieu of other approved modes of travel, is reimbursable on a mileage basis under authority of 5 U.S.C. S 5724, and such use as a mode of per- sonal transportation does not diminish the employee's rights under 5 U.S.C. S 5727 to ship a different POV when travel orders approve such shipment. David J. Dossett, B-217691, July 31, 1985. 2. A transferred employee reclaims amount of disallowed portion of meals and miscellaneous expenses incurred while occupying temporary quarters. The agency denied the claim based on its own internal guidelines which provide that such expenses up to 49 percent of the daily allowable maximum rate of per diem are deemed reasonable, but any amount in excess of that percent- age was to be summarily disallowed regardless of unusual circumstances. Further agency consideration of the oc 5- / 303.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most