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B-222733,B-222959 1 (1988-03-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmzz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: %The Comptroller General of the United States LWashington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof: Larry V. Salas and William D. Morger - Relocation Expenses - Restoration to Duty Following Injury File: B-222733; B-222959 Date: MArch 1, 1988 DIGESTS 1. An employee, as the consequence of an on-the-job injury, was separated from federal employment and carried on the rolls of the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs. Upon reemployment 5 U.S.C. § 8151 mandates that he be treated as though he had never left federal employment for the pur- pose of benefits based on length of service. Where he is reemployed at a different geographical location from his duty station at the date of separation he, therefore, is entitled to relocation expenses under 5 U.S.C. §§ 5724 and 5724a to the same extent as if he had been transferred to the new duty station without a break in service. 2. Where an individual is reemployed at his former duty station following a period of separation during which he was carried on the rolls of tne Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, he is not entitled to reimbursement for expenses ne incurs in relocating his residence back to that same duty station incident to the reemployment action. The individual's handicap resulting from an on-the-job injury does not justify an exception to the rule that one reappointed to federal employment following a break in service must bear the costs of traveling to his first duty station. These costs are common to all individuals appointed or reappointed to positions at locations distant from their places of residence; therefore, reimbursement for such costs cannot be viewed as ameliorating access-to- work impediments that arise as the result of a handicapping condition. However, because of equitable considerations, a report is being submitted to the Congress recommending that it authorize relocation expenses as a meritorious claim under 31 U.S.C. 3 3702(d). DECISION This decision deals with the authority of federal agencies to pay relocation expenses incident to the reemployment of OL \A oa ;351 ~Q

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