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B-220104 1 (1986-08-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmkg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: t14 In- I THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL EClSION • . OF THU UNITED STATES 5.WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-220104 DATE: August 4, 1986 MATTER OF: Gerald S. Mathews - Liability for Indirect Travel - Foreign Service Travel Regulations DIGEST: 1. State Department employee was authorized home leave pending reassignment. Consultation at State Department, Washington, D.C., was authorized prior or after home leave provided expenses may not exceed that which would have been incurred had consultations occurred after home leave. Foreign Service Travel Regulations require all official travel be performed directly by usually traveled route which is one or more routes essentially the same in cost and traveltime. Employee elected to perform home leave after consultations in Washington, D.C. Therefore, his claim for reimbursement for actual travel expenses is denied since he is limited to constructive cost of direct travel from Washington, D.C., to new duty station in Mexico City, Mexico. 2. State Department employee was transferred from Tijuana, Mexico, to Mexico City, Mexico, with home leave en route and consultations at State Department. Baggage handling claim cannot be allowed as it was incident to travel segment found not to be author- ized but for the personal convenience of employee. Additionally, reimburse- ment for passport photographs for family members cannot be allowed where family members did not participate in relocation travel. Further, claim for long distance telephone calls to shipping agent, American Embassy in Mexico City, and to State Department may be paid if proper agency official after reexamination determines calls were for official business.

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