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B-221518 1 (1986-09-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmmo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof. R. Bruce Michael File: B-221518 Date: September 26, 1986 DIGEST An employee claimed reimbursement for the expenses of the sale of a residence in Ann Arbor, Michigan, incident to a permanent change of station. However, at the time of the relocation, the employee was living in an apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan, from which he was commuting to work, and the residence in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was rented out. The latter residence was not occupied by the employee at the time he was first notified of the transfer, nor was it the resi- dence from which he commuted to work on a daily basis, as the Federal Travel Regulations require, and thus his claim is denied. DECISION This decision is in response to a request for an advance decision by Mr. Conrad R. Hoffman, Director, Office of Budget and Finance, Veterans Administration (VA), Washington, D.C., concerning the entitlement of Mr. R. Bruce Michael to reim- bursement for real estate expenses incident to a permanent change of station (PCS). For the following reasons, we con- clude that Mr. Michael may not be reimbursed. Mr. R. Bruce Michael, a VA employee was authorized expenses for a PCS from the Environmental Protection Agency in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to the VA Medical Center in Iowa City, Iowa. At the time of the relocation Mr. Michael listea his residence as being an apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He subsequently presented a voucher claiming reimbursement in the amount of $3,935 for the sale of a residence in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The VA disallowed this claim on the grounds that the residence in Ann Arbor was not the residence occupied by Mr. Michael at the time he was notified of the transfer, nor was it the residence from which he commuted to work on a daily basis. Mr. Michael does not dispute the above facts, but argues that his Ann Arbor residence should be considered his residence and that he should receive reimbursement for his real estate expenses for the following reasons. Mr. Michael asserts that, at the time of his transfer, his wife and he were temporarily living in an apartment on a lake during the GOSC Ictc

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