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B-223805 1 (1987-03-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmqf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroiler General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof: Robert J. Gofus - Reimbursement for Noncommercial Lodging File: B-223805 Date: March 20, 1987 DIGEST 1. Agency's disallowance of employee's claim for $20 per night paid to employee's parents for lodging with them in New York City while assigned there on official business is sustained. Employee submitted no documentation of the specific expenses incurred by his parents. Under these circumstances, the agency's determination that the amount claimed was excessive is not clearly erroneous, arbitrary, or capricious. DECISION The issue in this case is whether an employee may be reimbursed the $20 per night that he paid to his parents for lodging with them in New York City while assigned there on official business. The agency's disallowance of the claim is sustained. FACTS Mr. Robert J. Gofus, an employee of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) who is permanently stationed in Cincinnati, was on official business in New York City for 11 days, February 2, 1986, through February 14, 1986. New York City is a high-rate geographical area and amounts otherwise proper up to $75 per day were reimbursable at that time. While there he stayed with his parents in Freeport, New York, and ate breakfast and dinner at their home. Upon his return to Cincinnati he submitted a voucher for $35 a day, $385 total, for payments made to his father for food and lodgings, plus lunch and transportation costs. Statements signed by Mr. Gofus and his father accompanied his voucher to verify payment of the $35 per day. Mr. Gofus claimed lunch cost for 9 days at figures ranging from $3.50-$5.75, for a total of $38.75 or an average of

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