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B-226362 1 (1987-11-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmxm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -- .-. -I +The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 UDecision Matterof: Walter E. Murphy, Jr. - Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses File: B-226362 Date: November 23, 1987 DIGEST Employee of the Veterans Administration is not entitled to temporary quarters subsistence expenses while renting and occupying the house he intends to purchase as his family's residence at his new duty station. His intent during the period for which he claims temporary quarters subsistence expenses was to occupy the house permanently. The fact that its purchase was subject to approval of financing based upon his wife's obtaining employment does not change its character as the employee's permanent quarters. Savings to the Government may not serve as a basis for holding otherwise. DECISION An employee claims temporary quarters subsistence expenses for the period which he and his dependents rented and occupied the house they purchased after their mortgage loan was approved in August 1985.1/ We conclude that the employee may not be paid since he intended to purchase the residence from the time he moved in and, therefore, it was not temporary quarters. Mr. Walter E. Murphy, an employee of the Veterans Administration, was transferred from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Dublin, Georgia, with a July 9, 1985, reporting date. He has claimed temporary quarters subsistence expenses for the period July 10, 1985, through August 7, 1985, in the amount of $1,263.35. Mr. Murphy indicates that he and his wife signed a purchase agreement for a residence in Dublin, Georgia, in June 1985. A loan application was filed within the next week for the purchase of this house. Mr. Murphy was notified by the lender that the application would not be considered until 1/ Mr. Conrad R. Hoffman, Director, Office of Budget and Finance (Controller), Veterans Administration, has requested a decision on the claim. o 4 0

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