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B-228623 1 (1988-01-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmyp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Ernesto L. Montoya - Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses - Vacating Former Residence Matter of: B-228623 File: Date: January 4, 1988 DIGEST A transferred employee claims entitlement to temporary quarters subsistence expense reimbursement for himself and his immediate family at his new station even though the family returned to their former residence 2 months later and remained there for a protracted time. The claim for temporary quarters for the family at the new duty station may be allowed. At issue is whether there. is objective evidence of intent to vacate the former residence. We find that the requisite intent to vacate the former residence has been manifested since their former residence had been put up for sale, their household goods shipped and placed in storage at the new duty station, and the events which compelled their return did not arise until after they traveled to the new duty station. John L. Reid, B-227193, Oct. 16, 1987. DECISION This decision is in response to a request from the Chief, Financial Services Section, Mine Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It concerns the entitlement of one of its employees to be reimbursed for temporary quarters subsistence expenses incident to a permanent change of station in March 1984. The claim may be allowed for the following reasons. BACKGROUND Mr. Ernesto Montoya, an employee of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, was involved in two permanent change- of-station transfers. The first transfer was from Rolla, Missouri, to Logan, West Virginia, in November 1982, and the second was from Logan, West Virginia, to Craig, Colorado, in March 1984. Incident to the first transfer, Mr. Montoya was authorized the full range of relocation expenses for himself, his &qccill Z

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