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B-224092 1 (1987-03-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmqh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General 1 of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof- Thomas R. Stover File: B-224092 Date: March 23, 1987 DIGEST The employee's wife, who resided at the new duty station and was not involved in the employee's change of station, traveled to the old duty station for the purpose of driving the employee's car to the new duty station since the employee was driving a rental truck to transport his household goods. There is no entitlement to mileage and per diem for his wife's travel since her residence was at the new duty station and she was not officially relocating or performing permanent change-of-station travel, and thus was not a person entitled. to travel at Government expense. Also, mileage may not be paid as a cost of transporting the automobile because there is no statute specifically authorizing transportation of the automobile within the continental United States at Government expense. DECISION This decision is in response to a request for an opinion on whether an employee may be paid mileage and reimbursed expenses for the transportation of his privately owned automobile incident to a change of duty station. The automobile was driven by the employee's wife who was not relocating in connection with the change of station.i/ The employee is not entitled to the claimed mileage and expenses. Mr. Thomas R. Stover transferred from San Francisco, California, to Kansas City, Missouri, in February 1986. He was authorized to move under the commuted rate system and he rented a truck to transport his household goods, which he drove from San Francisco to Kansas City. His wife, 1/ The Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, Department of Labor, requested our decision. 0.3t&4Qko

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